05.28.06
Me on de Beauvoir on Marian
I took part in Marian Finucane’s Book Club on Saturday. Reviewing a great book called Tete a Tete by Hazel Rowley. To listen go here, click on the Saturday show and fast forward to about 1hr20mins. It’s a bit dull at the start but really takes off towards the end. I got to be patronised by an academic which always lends spice to any conversation. The book describes the relationships that Sartre and de Beavoir had with other people, apart from their own great love affair.
I took the view that while their theory of the open relationship, while fine in theory, collapsed because they picked the wrong people to fall in love with and seduce. While they were honest with each other, they weren’t always honest with the innocents who fell in love with them. Sartre was a total creep and particularly liked to take the virginity of the impressionable young women who had crushes on de Beauvoir and then describe it in sordid terms. de Beauvoir never revealed in her lifetime about her lesbian relationships and basically, (even though I hate that word and it is so overused) the people who came into contact with them suffered. She suffered too.
auds said,
May 28, 2006 at 9:27 pm
I was just about to email you and tell you how I much enjoyed the segment.
You certainly held your own and said what I was thinking a few times.
I didn’t catch the Trinity philosopher’s name but he was a bit of prick – the points you were making about their sexual relations were perfectly valid and I enjoyed how you handled his “all Irish morality is sexual morality” BS.
My mother was listening to it in the car and rang home to tell me that Fr Brendan was on the radio (he’s a family friend) and when she got home she said “Brendan was good as usual, but that woman was really good!”.
sarah said,
May 29, 2006 at 10:19 am
thanks! actually yer man Brendan was lovely. We had a great chat afterwards. I shook hands with Tommy the academic. Its quite funny, I never really take those on-air disagreements personally – it’s just show business and a good row makes it better listening. But I think he took it a tad more seriously!
Gerry said,
May 31, 2006 at 2:29 pm
i was writing something there so decided to listen in. you failed to outrageously over-pronounce SeeMon-eh Du Burrrrvoir-ah and Jan-eh Polll Sorrtrrreh at the Herculle Narh-Mal which meant you were a little intellectually outgunned. the more syllables the more letters after the names. In fact I did largely agree with Tommy but he sounded like an idiot.
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gerry
Feebee said,
May 31, 2006 at 3:16 pm
I was listening to it in my car on Saturday, missed the beginning so didn’t catch the names. I don’t know why, but I kept thinking, I wonder if that’s Sarah Carey.
michelle said,
July 8, 2006 at 10:13 pm
Who would know that Lulu and Germaine Greer shared so much? Between them, they flummoxed mother-of-? Miriam