In 1947, Simone de Beauvoir leaped across the Atlantic for a journey. Dubbed “the most beautiful existentialist”, she set out to spend time in the US. The observations she does in her diary, which was published in 1948 in the form of her book “America Day by Day”, are still relevant to this day.
Arriving in New York City, de Beauvoir was given a warm welcome by the so-called ‘Condé Nast’ set: Manhattan’s Café Society, the glamorous and intellectual magazine editors who worked at publications like the Partisan Review.
As a reader, we get to know De Beauvoir as an existentialist in itself, but also as a philosopher off-duty.
Sarah Bronkhorst 