Beauvoir’s moral-period essays never portrayed lived political judgment.

Evidence

By following Henri through his dilemmas and decisions, we may begin to construct from Beauvoir’s novel an account, one still absent from her “moral period” essays, of the lived experience of making political judgments. — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre, 485

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s broader interest in the Beauvoir-Sartre authorship question, since it situates the novel as the site where Beauvoir moves past Sartrean ethics.