Intimacy by Jean-Paul Sartre. Short summary

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Lulu wanted to leave her husband Henri for her lover Pierre. But after hesitating, she returned home, despite her friend’s entreaties.

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Lulu did not love her husband. Henri was impotent, but it was not this that repulsed Lulu, but many different little things. Henri was arrogant to her, considered uneducated. She was also despised by his family. Lulu did not like her husband’s untidiness.

She now had a lover, Pierre. He called her to him, promised to take her to Nice, where he has a villa. But Lulu did not dare to leave the usual rhythm of life. And she was frightened by the assertive machismo of Pierre.

Lulu’s friend Riretta, said that she had to leave Henri. And then one day Lulu made up her mind. The occasion served as a quarrel between Henri and Lulu’s younger brother. The wife packed her suitcase and left. Together with Riretta they celebrated the event in a cafe.

But then Lulu pulled her friend to store in the neighborhood where Henri was supposed to pass at that hour. And of course, he saw the women. He began pulling Lulu home. Riretta fended her off, and they left in a cab.

But sex with Pierre did not give satisfaction to Lulu. She went back to her husband.