Stella Sanford, in her book ‘How to Read Beauvoir,’ contends that one of the main themes of Simone De Beauvoir’s ‘The Blood of Others’ is the relation between the free individual and ‘the historically unfolding world of brute facts and other men and women.’ Deirdre Bair, in a biography of the French existentialist, published in 1990, argues that Beauvoir’s intention was to express the paradox of freedom experienced by an individual and the ways in which others, perceived by the