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Natalie Sorokin

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Natalie Sorokine (17 May 1921 – 20 December 1968) was a French woman who had relations with Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre.[1][2] Beauvoir was suspended from her teaching job after seducing her 17-year-old lycée pupil in 1939. Sorokin, along with Bianca Lamblin and Olga Kosakiewicz, later stated that their relationships with Sartre and de Beauvoir damaged them psychologically.[1]

Early life

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Sorokine was born in Constantinople, Turkey, to White Russian émigrés Porfiry Sorokin and his wife, Natalia Sorokina.

Existential life with Simone de Beauvoir

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In June 1943, Sorokin's mother complained to the school authorities that de Beauvoir had led her daughter astray. De Beauvoir was accused of behavior leading to the corruption of a minor and her teaching license was suspended for the rest of her life.[3] Sorokin later said her relationship with de Beauvoir and Sartre came to an end when she found this relationship serving only one party.[4][page needed]

Later life

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After recovering from her trauma, Sorokin started writing and worked for radio.[3][page needed] She later married Ivan Moffat, a friend of de Beauvoir and Sartre's and son of the British actress and poet Iris Tree and artist and photographer Curtis Moffat.[5] Their marriage was brief and produced one daughter.

See also

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References

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  1. ^ a b Rogers, N., & Thompson, M. (2004). Philosophers Behaving Badly. London: Peter Owen
  2. ^ Lamblin, B. (1996). A disgraceful affair: Simone de Beauvoir, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Bianca Lamblin. Boston, Mass: Northeastern University Press.
  3. ^ a b Appignanesi, L. (1988). Simone de Beauvoir. London: Penguin Books.
  4. ^ Holveck, E. (2002). Simone de Beauvoir's philosophy of lived experience: Literature and metaphysics. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. books.google.fr/books?id=MW84dw7EhSkC&printsec=frontcover&dq=
  5. ^ Bergan, Ronald (22 July 2002). "Ivan Moffat, Well-connected screenwriter of movie classics". The Guardian. Retrieved 20 January 2022.