Beauvoir’s early novel Anne lay unpublished from 1937 until 1979
Evidence
Th e prewar phase: for Sartre this was the period of the Transcendence of the Ego, Nausea, A Sketch for a Th eory of Emotions, and Th e Imagination. For Beauvoir it was the time when she composed Anne, ou quand prime le spirituel (written between 1935 and 1937, though only published in 1979).
— Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre, 52
Categorization
XREF: The 42-year gap between composition and publication matters for the influence chronology — Sartre could have read it in the 1930s-40s even if it stayed unpublished. — connects to: Beauvoir’s 1930s story collection remained unpublished until 1979 — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre: The Riddle of…, 546