Beauvoir renders Henri’s newspaper as his own lived world, not just his property

Evidence

Th e paper is his “world.” It is not only his project but also a place where he is profoundly at home. Beauvoir describes Henri entering the offi ces alone, late at night: “He liked the familiar smell of stale dust and fresh ink. Th e offi ces were still empty, the basement silent. But soon a whole world would rise from this silence, a world that was his creation. ‘No one will ever lay his hands on L’Espoir,’ he repeated to himself. He sat down at his desk and stretched out” (Man, 166; Fr. 207, my translation). — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre, 492

Categorization

• SEED: Potential essay angle: Beauvoir’s own French translation differences from the English (flagged ‘Fr. 207, my translation’) could be a case study in how she revised her own fiction between editions.
• XREF: connects to: Beauvoir’s Henri Perron exists as a freedom suffused by political situation. — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre: The Riddle of…, 485

Broader Connections

• Beauvoir’s Henri Perron exists as a freedom suffused by political situation. #expands (0.82) — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre, 485