Postwar, continued

Reading Mulgan has led me back to the accounts of Greece and the Balkans (and the Brigate Rosse and the Baader-Meinhof Group)in Postwar by Tony Judt (a much missed colleague).  Instead of rereading some of the war writing I already know very well, say Robert Stone's Dog Soldiers or Wilfrid Owen, I've started Simone de Beauvoir's The Mandarins.  This arrived under the Christmas tree, literally, fulfilling a wish to try out her fiction that I've had since I heard Toril Moi speak a couple of months ago about Stanley Cavell and Beauvoir's She Came To Stay.