Sartre layered multiple satirical targets into his story, borrowing from Beauvoir

Evidence

Sartre augments the reference to Rimbaud, already present in “Marguerite,” in order to turn the episode into a parody of La Saison en enfer (as Genevieve Idt has shown). In addition to attacking surrealism, Sartre also satirizes psychoanalysis through the way it was used by Lucien and his mentor. Finally, the character of Berliac is given many of Nizan’s traits. — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre, 516

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Beauvoir shaped Sartre’s fiction by pushing him toward plot and suspense — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom,…, 353; Sartre’s Concrete Relations with Others section is modeled on Beauvoir’s novel — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre: The Riddle of…, 250