Sartre’s writer-reader reciprocity mirrors Beauvoir’s happy couple in The Second Sex.

Evidence

In many ways Sartre’s account of the relationship between writer and reader, who together realize a type of metaphysical absolute, refl ects Beauvoir’s depiction in Th e Second Sex of “the happy couple”: the lovers who freely give themselves to the other, and in whom each freedom is mutually sustained and confi rmed. — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre, 281

Categorization

• XREF: Direct evidence for the mutual-influence thesis that organizes this book; bears directly on the core historiographical question of who influenced whom. — connects to: Beauvoir synthesized Sartre and Merleau-Ponty, exceeding both, to write the Second Sex — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre: The Riddle of…, 63; Beauvoir’s Second Sex reuses Sartre’s slimy imagery to describe feminine sexuality — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre: The Riddle of…, 386