The Mandarins

The Mandarins (French: Les Mandarins) is a 1954 roman-à-clef by Simone de Beauvoir. De Beauvoir was awarded the Prix Goncourt prize in 1954 for The Mandarins. It was first published in English in 1957. The book follows the personal lives of a close-knit group of French intellectuals from the end of WWII to the mid fifties. The title refers to the scholar-bureaucrats of imperial China. The characters at times see themselves as ineffectual "mandari... more

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