The Mandarins (Les Mandarins), published in 1954, is Simone de Beauvoir's roman a clef following a circle of French left wing intellectuals, closely modeled on Beauvoir's own circle including Sartre and Albert Camus, in the disillusioned years immediately after the Second World War. It won the Prix Goncourt, France's leading literary prize, in 1954.
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is a 1954 roman à clef by Simone de Beauvoir, for which she won that year's Prix Goncourt, awarded annually to the best and most imaginative prose work.
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The Mandarins (French: Les Mandarins) is a 1954 roman à clef by Simone de Beauvoir, for which she won that year's Prix Goncourt, awarded annually to the best and most imaginative prose work. The Mandarins was first published in English in 1956 as a translation by Leonard M. Friedman. The book follows the personal lives of a close-knit group of French intellectuals from the end of World War II to the mid-1950s.
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