Sarah Bakewell recounts the story of existentialism with wit and intelligence, offering a fresh take on a discipline often deemed daft and pretentious One of the funniest and most trenchant critiques of Parisian existentialism takes place in the 1961 film The Rebel, in which Tony Hancock plays a deluded would-be artist who has quit the stifling mediocrity of East Cheam for the delights of avant garde Paris. Having accidentally found himself the new darling of the Left Bank, Hancock is invited to...
At the Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails by Sarah Bakewell - review
The Guardian - 28 Feb 2016 08:30
Sarah Bakewell recounts the story of existentialism with wit and intelligence, offering a fresh take on a discipline often deemed daft and pretentious One of the funniest and most trenchant critiques of Parisian existentialism takes place in the 1961 film The Rebel, in which Tony Hancock plays a deluded would-be artist who has quit the stifling mediocrity of East Cheam for the delights of avant garde Paris. Having accidentally found himself the new darling of the Left Bank, Hancock is invited to...
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