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So I shared it with my dear friend Alice, an incredibly imaginative writer and out of the box thinker with whom I pass endless afternoons dissecting life, love, books and feelings. She, of course, was having a panic attack at the thought of the book ending as she was devouring it as slowly as possible to prolong the sense of connectedness she was feeling, a feeling I know oh so well! And now here we are, having the urgent need to share and discuss this incredible new discovery called phenomenology and existentialism. Salander https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a8db5dd268b96bd4bed42fa/1540933346165-39L3Q6D0EPYKDNVQR70D/the+book.jpg Les existentialistes - The Book! I must admit that I read very little, but listened to most of THE BOOK. One habit I got hooked on this year (audible), but regardless of that I should add that over the years, I've developed a deep trust for Salander's book recommendations. You see she is my kind of reader. So when she said "this is the book you have to get" I obeyed at once. Then a couple of weeks later, one morning, as I was walking home from SoHo and while trying to keep my head down and my hood up so that no one would notice I was in tears, (Sartre had just died in the book and for me), a click interrupted the narrator's voice. Oh noooo! Such a trivial ... I thought, now Sartre is dead and my stupid phone is … And then I saw 'hi". It was Salander. Without even reading the next line, I replied: "You know, Sartre is dead." "I know," she wrote, "I know ..." She was feeling me. Such a relief! And then she asked: "Are you around? Let's meet." That meeting came and another arrived and then another one and another and during each one of them we found ourselves going back to THE BOOK and to Beauvoir and Sartre and Heidegger and Merleau-Ponty and all the boys and the few girls of the time. So here we are now at LES EXISTENTIALISTES. The discoveries are daily and simple as life itself. Or not? 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Like Flaubert's Emma or Tolstoy's Anna, Kundera's Agnès becomes an object of fascination, of indefinable longing. From that character springs a novel, a gesture of the imagination that both embodies and articulates Milan Kundera's supreme mastery of the novel and its purpose: to explore thoroughly the great themes of existence. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a8db5dd268b96bd4bed42fa/1540945647552-6F9S0PG8W6SZWVBO78K2/therepublic.jpg suggestions - The Republic Presented in the form of a dialogue between Socrates and three different interlocutors, this classic text is an enquiry into the notion of a perfect community and the ideal individual within it. During the conversation, other questions are raised: what is goodness?; what is reality?; and what is knowledge? The Republic also addresses the purpose of education and the role of both women and men as guardians of the people. With remarkable lucidity and deft use of allegory, Plato arrives at a depiction of a state bound by harmony and ruled by philosopher kings. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a8db5dd268b96bd4bed42fa/1540992148232-33B9ESXYXDI3B50R63N6/introphilosophybook.jpg suggestions - Looking at philosophy Distilled from Donald Palmer’s more than thirty years of teaching experience, this text exemplifies his very successful approach to teaching introductory philosophy. Through the use of humor and nearly 400 drawings, charts, and diagrams, serious philosophical topics come alive for the reader without compromising the importance of the subject matter. In the author’s words, “This book takes philosophy seriously, but not gravely.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a8db5dd268b96bd4bed42fa/1541100333301-5WPQPOWLTIXSKNUTU5X0/image-asset.jpeg suggestions - The 2nd Sex Simone de Beauvoir’s essential masterwork is a powerful analysis of the Western notion of “woman,” and a revolutionary exploration of inequality and otherness. Unabridged in English for the first time, this long-awaited edition reinstates significant portions of the original French text that were cut in the first English translation. Vital and groundbreaking, Beauvoir’s pioneering and impressive text remains as pertinent today as when it was first published, and will continue to provoke and inspire generations of men and women to come. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a8db5dd268b96bd4bed42fa/1541100818731-5YPC1FBPS5X490865DBJ/image-asset.jpeg suggestions - Left bank In this fascinating tour of a celebrated city during one of its most trying, significant, and ultimately triumphant eras, Agnes Poirier unspools the stories of the poets, writers, painters, and philosophers whose lives collided to extraordinary effect between 1940 and 1950. She gives us the human drama behind some of the most celebrated works of the 20th century, from Richard Wright’s Native Son, Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex, and James Baldwin's Giovanni's Room to Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot and Saul Bellow's Augie March, along with the origin stories of now legendary movements, from Existentialism to the Theatre of the Absurd, New Journalism, bebop, and French feminism. We follow Arthur Koestler and Norman Mailer as young men, peek inside Picasso’s studio, and trail the twists of Camus's Sartre's, and Beauvoir’s epic love stories. We witness the births and deaths of newspapers and literary journals and peer through keyholes to see the first kisses and last nights of many ill-advised bedfellows. At every turn, Poirier deftly hones in on the most compelling and colorful history, without undermining the crucial significance of the era. She brings to life the flawed, visionary Parisians who fell in love and out of it, who infuriated and inspired one another, all while reconfiguring the world's political, intellectual, and creative landscapes. With its balance of clear-eyed historical narrative and irresistible anecdotal charm, Left Bank transports readers to a Paris teeming with passion, drama, and life. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a8db5dd268b96bd4bed42fa/1541169989099-52NKNCY2LYJFOJ2LD5FE/demian+book.jpg suggestions - Demian A young man awakens to selfhood and to a world of possibilities beyond the conventions of his upbringing in Nobel Prize winner Hermann Hesse’s beloved novel Demian. Emil Sinclair is a quiet boy drawn into a forbidden yet seductive realm of petty crime and defiance. His guide is his precocious, mysterious classmate Max Demian, who provokes in Emil a search for self-discovery and spiritual fulfillment. A brilliant psychological portrait, Demian is given new life in this translation, which together with James Franco’s personal and inspiring foreword will bring a new generation to Hesse’s widely influential coming-of-age novel. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a8db5dd268b96bd4bed42fa/1541170120855-8MVN6YH2V3UT6CNRYX4A/platobook.jpg suggestions - The last day of socrates The Last Days of Socrates, written by legendary author Plato, is widely considered to be one of the greatest classic texts of all time. This great classic will surely attract a whole new generation of readers. For many, The Last Days of Socrates is required reading for various courses and curriculums. And for others who simply enjoy reading timeless pieces of classic literature, this gem by Plato is highly recommended. Published by Classic Books International and beautifully produced, The Last Days of Socrates would make an ideal gift and it should be a part of everyone's personal library. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a8db5dd268b96bd4bed42fa/1544459376417-DAK3GBY16LJIPHOP9X2J/lifeofpi.jpg suggestions - life of pi The son of a zookeeper, Pi Patel has an encyclopedic knowledge of animal behavior and a fervent love of stories. When Pi is sixteen, his family emigrates from India to North America aboard a Japanese cargo ship, along with their zoo animals bound for new homes. The ship sinks. Pi finds himself alone in a lifeboat, his only companions a hyena, an orangutan, a wounded zebra, and Richard Parker, a 450-pound Bengal tiger. Soon the tiger has dispatched all but Pi, whose fear, knowledge, and cunning allow him to coexist with Richard Parker for 227 days while lost at sea. When they finally reach the coast of Mexico, Richard Parker flees to the jungle, never to be seen again. The Japanese authorities who interrogate Pi refuse to believe his story and press him to tell them "the truth." 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