Mandarins (Harper Perennial Modern Classics)

A Harper Perennial Modern Classics reissue of this unflinching examination of post-war French intellectual life, and an amazing chronicle of love, philosophy and politics from one of the most important thinkers of the twentieth century.

Reviews

‘A remarkable novel.’ Iris Murdoch, Sunday Times
‘A dazzling panorama of the giants of the Left Bank.’ New Statesman
‘The characters, especially the women, are uninhibited and sometimes predatory. The dialogues are salty, frank and realistic. The characters’ amorous adventures are set down with microscopic exactitude.’ Guardian
‘There are few, a very few, novels from which one comes away with the feeling of having travelled, experienced, learned… such a book is The Mandarins.’ Bookman