The Mandarins
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The Mandarins is a 1954 existentialist novel by Simone de Beauvoir that portrays the personal and political struggles of French intellectuals in the aftermath of World War II.
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| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Mandarins canonical | 1 |
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| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf | novel ⓘ |
| author | Simone de Beauvoir NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awarded | Prix Goncourt NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awardYear | 1954 ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | France ⓘ |
| EnglishTranslator | Leonard M. Friedman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| explores |
French left-wing intellectual circles
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postwar French politics ⓘ tension between private life and political commitment ⓘ |
| firstEnglishPublicationYear | 1956 ⓘ |
| genre |
existentialist literature
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philosophical fiction ⓘ political novel ⓘ |
| hasCharacter |
Anne Dubreuilh
NERFINISHED
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Henri Perron NERFINISHED ⓘ Lewis Brogan NERFINISHED ⓘ Nadia NERFINISHED ⓘ Robert Dubreuilh NERFINISHED ⓘ Scriassine NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasSubject |
Cold War politics
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French Resistance legacy ⓘ World War II aftermath ⓘ communism and anti-communism debates ⓘ feminist concerns ⓘ |
| hasTranslation | English ⓘ |
| influencedBy | existentialist philosophy ⓘ |
| literaryForm | prose ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | existentialism ⓘ |
| mainTheme |
commitment and political engagement
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existentialism ⓘ personal and political struggles of French intellectuals ⓘ relationships and infidelity ⓘ responsibility of intellectuals ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | third-person ⓘ |
| notableFor |
portrayal of French intellectual life after World War II
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winning France's major literary prize, the Prix Goncourt ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | French ⓘ |
| originalTitle | Les Mandarins NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| pageCountApprox | 700 ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1954 ⓘ |
| publisher | Gallimard NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| relatedAuthor | Jean-Paul Sartre NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| relatedWork | The Second Sex NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingPeriod | post-World War II ⓘ |
| settingPlace | France NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| structure | multi-perspective narrative ⓘ |
| title | The Mandarins NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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