The Art Of Awkward: Making Friends as an Adult ~ Lone Wolf Magazine

One of the greatest and most public bff-breakups in history happened in the summer of 1952, between two of the most brilliant philosophers of the 20th century, Albert Camus and Jean Paul Sartre. This platonic power couple had a lot in common; they were both chain-smokin’ commies, both were exceptional storytellers, playwrights, essayists, and magazine editor-in-chiefs, both were obsessed with the surrealist poet Francis Ponge, and both authored brilliant Nobel Prize winning existentialist novels. So what happened to these twin souls? Her name was Wanda Kosakiewicz, an irresistible half-Russian nymph Sartre spent years trying to seduce. He fell in love with her, she fell in love with Camus, and Camus figured, hell, why not? And so it goes.

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