![]() ![]() ![]() Inevitably, Nelson begins to resent Simone’s reluctance to prioritize their relationship and the continued presence of Sartre in Simone’s life. Simone wants to be in Paris, believing that Sartre needs her and that their work together is of immense importance and Nelson “loses” his passport for six years because of suspect political links. The couple spend as much time together as the constraints of 1940’s and 50’s travel and the demands of work will allow but their long-distance love affair is doomed from the start. ![]() Simone, however, soon comes to see Nelson as the great love of her life and Nelson terms her his “frog wife” and longs for some permanence in the relationship. ![]() They are an unlikely pairing – she France’s feminist icon, member of an intimate circle of Parisian intellectuals and philosophers and in a long term relationship with Sartre – and Algren, a radical writer, champion of the down-and-out, whose closest friends are drunks, gamblers and drug addicts. He takes her on breakneck tour of the seamier side of Chicago – the dives, the cabarets, even the police cells – and then back to his apartment on Wabansia Avenue, where the love affair, which was to last for two decades, begins. Simone de Beauvoir meets Nelson Algren in February 1947 when she rings him up and asks him to show her the ‘real’ Chicago. Noon in Paris, Eight in Chicago by Douglas Cowie, novel set in Paris and Chicago. Novel set in Paris and Chicago (“well-paced and really compelling”) ![]()
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