NELSON ALGREN HAS A PHYSICAL ENCOUNTER WITH FRENCH PHILOSOPHY. The relationship between Sartre and de Beauvoir gives piquancy to a passage in CHICAGO’S NELSON ALGREN. In response to a rumor, Algren said that the only desks that he and de Beauvoir “did it on” were Algren’s desk in his Chicago apartment and “Jean-Paul Sartre’s desk in Paris when he was out with a high school girl. We ruined two or three hundred pages he had written that morning.”
A blow on behalf of Simone de Beauvoir and Parisian high school girls.