“Inseparable” distils subjects that would preoccupy Simone de Beauvoir throughout her career
The pair quickly became firm friends—dubbed “the two inseparables” by their teachers—as well as academic rivals. They would sneak into Lacoin’s father’s study, not to exchange “girlish confidences” but to talk about their reading and schoolwork, or lofty ideas such as the definition of love. They remained close until university., her father had mismanaged their money, and she was expected to succeed academically and support herself.
She produced another version of the story, too. De Beauvoir wrote “Inseparable”, a thinly fictionalised account of the friendship, in 1954 but hid it in a drawer. Jean-Paul Sartre, her romantic and intellectual partner, considered such personal material uninteresting and dissuaded her from publishing it. Discovered by her daughter, the novella was released in French last year and is now out in English.Some of it will be familiar to admirers.
De Beauvoir would probe the meaning of self-determination and freedom in “The Ethics of Ambiguity”, a defence of existentialism published in 1947. “Man exists,” she wrote. “For him it is not a question of wondering whether his presence in the world is useful…It is a matter of knowing whether he wants to live and under what conditions.
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