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| | | 'My relationship with Simone de Beauvoir was unique. It cannot be reproduced. It was love' | | by Kim Willsher Oct 3, 2021 | | As an autobiographical novel by the writer is published for the first time in English, Sylvie Le Bon de Beauvoir – the adopted daughter with whom Simone shared the last 26 years of her life – talks about their bond “Simone de Beauvoir was haunted by the death of her childhood friend Zaza… I think she spent the rest of her life looking for the intimacy they’d had,” says Sylvie Le Bon de Beauvoir. “For a long time she didn’t succeed, but I believe she found it with me.” For all but the most ardent followers of the 20th-century feminist and author of The Second Sex this statement may come as a surprise. De Beauvoir is most famously linked to fellow writer and philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre, with whom she enjoyed – and at times endured – a 50-year open relationship. Continue reading... | | | | | Harriet Walter: 'There are people who can play the game way better than me' | | by Tim Lewis Oct 3, 2021 | | A peerless classical actor, Harriet Walter has recently hit new highs playing frosty matriarchs Our drinks have not arrived – hell, we’ve not even seen a menu – and the great Dame Harriet Walter already appears to be having something of an existential wobble. By way of familiarising ourselves, I’d lobbed her a softball question about how she is coping with life and work during Covid. But I’ll quickly learn that Walter, the 71-year-old actress, royalty of British theatre, a Dame since 2011, prefers searing honesty and eviscerating self-awareness to small talk. “I’ve become very confused about what I think,” she admits, as we settle in for lunch at a bougie brasserie in Chiswick, west London. “The trajectory one thought life was going on and why I was here and what good I was in the world suddenly went splat. A lot of things I was keeping at bay, like a sense of being a bit irrelevant, have come in on me.” Continue reading... | | | | | Strike a pose: infrared scans reveal the method in Munch's Madonna | | by Dalya Alberge Oct 3, 2021 | | Preparatory sketch discovered beneath Norwegian master’s painting shows how he struggled with the original composition It is one of art history’s most evocative female forms, a painting of a nude woman arching her back sensually, one arm behind her head and the other behind her back. Now a preparatory drawing has been discovered beneath Edvard Munch’s Madonna in the National Museum of Norway, revealing that the Norwegian master struggled over how he should place her arms, initially showing them just hanging down, until inspiration came to him. The underdrawing also shows that this masterpiece is likely to have been the first of five painted versions that Munch created in the 1890s. Continue reading... | | | | | |
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