Kdo je hodil z Simone de Beauvoir?

Simone-Lucie-Ernestine-Marie Bertrand de Beauvoir, poznana kot Simone de Beauvoir (francosko: [simɔn də bovwaʁ]), francoska pisateljica, eksistencialistična filozofinja, politična aktivistka, feministka in družbena teoretičarka, * 9. januar 1908, Pariz, Francija, † 14. april 1986, Pariz.

Sama se ni imela za filozofinjo, vendar je opazno vplivala tako na feministični eksistencializem kot na feministično teorijo. Pisala je romane, eseje, biografije, avtobiografijo, monografije o filozofiji, politiki in družbenih vprašanjih. Najbolj znani so njeni romani, npr. L'Invitée in Mandarini (Les Mandarins), pa tudi njena razprava Drugi spol (Le deuxième sexe) iz leta 1949, podrobna analiza zatiranja žensk in temeljno delo sodobnega feminizma.

Nelson Algren (born Nelson Ahlgren Abraham; March 28, 1909 – May 9, 1981) was an American writer. His 1949 novel The Man with the Golden Arm won the National Book Award and was adapted as the 1955 film of the same name.

Algren articulated the world of "drunks, pimps, prostitutes, freaks, drug addicts, prize fighters, corrupt politicians, and hoodlums". Art Shay singled out a poem Algren wrote from the perspective of a "halfy," street slang for a legless man on wheels. Shay said that Algren considered this poem to be a key to everything he had ever written. The protagonist talks about "how forty wheels rolled over his legs and how he was ready to strap up and give death a wrestle."

According to Harold Augenbraum, "in the late 1940s and early 1950s he was one of the best known literary writers in America." A lover of French writer Simone de Beauvoir, he is featured in her novel The Mandarins, set in Paris and Chicago. He was called "a sort of bard of the down-and-outer" based on this book, but also on his short stories in The Neon Wilderness (1947) and his novel A Walk on the Wild Side (1956). The latter was adapted as the 1962 film of the same name (directed by Edward Dmytryk, screenplay by John Fante).

Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre, običajno pisan kot Jean-Paul Sartre, francoski eksistencialistični filozof, dramatik, scenarist, pisatelj in literarni kritik, * 21. junij 1905, † 15. april 1980.

Velja za enega najpomembnejših francoskih intelektualcev v 20. stoletju. V filozofiji je izhajal iz stališča, da boga ni in da je človek bitje, ki je povsem svobodno in da ustvarja samega sebe. Od tod njegova maksima, da »eksistenca predhodi esenci«. Prav Sartre je tisti, ki je skoval tako poimenovanje te smeri filozofije, čeprav je Jaspers že govoril o »filozofiji eksistence«. Začel je z razpravami o domišljiji in čustvih (L´Imagination, 1936). Prve elemente svojega mišljenja, v katerih izhaja iz Husserla, Heideggerja in Hegla, je podrobno razvil v obsežnem delu Bit in nič (1943). Zanimal se je tudi za marksizem. Preobrat v Sartrovem teoretičnem obravnavanju od fenomenološko-eksistencialistične filozofije k marksizmu označuje njegovo drugo glavno delo Kritika dialektičnega uma (1960).

Neločljivo s filozofijo je povezana njegova literarna dejavnost. Sartru je bila leta 1964 podeljena Nobelova nagrada za književnost, ki pa jo je iz moralnih razlogov zavrnil.

Claude Lanzmann (French: [lanzman]; 27 November 1925 – 5 July 2018) was a French filmmaker, best known for the Holocaust documentary film Shoah (1985), which consists of nine and a half hours of oral testimony from Holocaust survivors, without historical footage. He is also known for his 2017 documentary film Napalm, about a love affair he had with a North Korean nurse whilst visiting North Korea in 1958, several years after the Korean War.

In addition to filmmaking, Lanzmann had also been the chief editor of Les Temps Modernes, a French literary magazine.