Beauvoir designed her story collection with cross-story continuity Sartre lacked.

Evidence

Beauvoir, on the other hand, fi rst tried to write novels before turning to short stories herself in 1935: “I had written two long novels in which the opening chapters held up pretty well, but which then degenerated into a mere shapeless hodgepodge. Th is time I determined to compose some fairly brief stories, and to discipline them rigorously from beginning to end” (PL, 178–79; FA, 255). Unlike Sartre, who collected his texts into a volume aft er the fact, Beauvoir tried to write her collection of stories such that common ideas ran throughout the book: the same characters occur, though with diff erent levels of prominence, from one short story to another, assuring an internal unity to the work. — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre, 508

Categorization

• XREF: The contrast in compositional method (unified sequence vs. after-the-fact collection) resonates with wider claims about Beauvoir’s more architectonic approach versus Sartre’s episodic one. — connects to: Beauvoir viewed her work and Sartre’s as one combined intellectual enterprise — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre: The Riddle of…, 50

Broader Connections

• Beauvoir viewed her work and Sartre’s as one combined intellectual enterprise #expands (0.75) — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre, 50