Marcee’s self-deception resists Sartrean unveiling, an early Beauvoir probe against Sartrean transparency

Evidence

Her story can be seen as an ironic comment on the Sartrean notion that the unveiling of the world will open a person’s eyes to the truth. Evidently Marcelle is determined to preserve the fanciful role she has chosen for herself; she may have been taken in by her egotistical, narcissistic young “poetic genius,” but she knows how to adapt her role to whatever pathetic circumstances she fi nds herself in and will not let reality obtrude. — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre, 553

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to Beauvoir’s later critique of Sartre’s bad faith/transparency assumptions in ‘The Ethics of Ambiguity’ and her theory of the spontaneous self-deceiving body.
• QUESTION: How directly did Beauvoir voice this critique of unveiling-the-truth later, and does it trace to her own novelistic experience rather than Sartre’s philosophy?