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(1988) Studies in Anglo-French cultural relations, Dordrecht, Springer.

The decline and fall of existentialism

Colin Wilson

pp. 135-153

In his biography of Camus, Herbert Lottman tells an amusing story of how Camus, Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir spent a drunken evening in various bistros on the Left Bank. As the dawn was breaking, Sartre and Camus walked back across a bridge over the Seine, and Sartre commented, "To think that in a few hours I'm going to talk about the writer's responsibility [at the Sorbonne].'1

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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-07921-6_9

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Wilson, C. (1988)., The decline and fall of existentialism, in C. Crossley & I. Small (eds.), Studies in Anglo-French cultural relations, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 135-153.

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