Olga Kosakiewicz

Olga Kosakiewicz was a student of Simone de Beauvoir who infamously joined the circle of de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre in the autumn of 1935 when she was only 18. She and her sister, Wanda Kosakiewicz, are fused together to make one central character in de Beauvoir's first novel L'Invitée (She Came to Stay, 1943, Gallimard), which was dedicated to Olga (where her name appears as Kosakievicz in the Norton translation). In Sartre's trilogy of no... more

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