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Wanda Kosakiewicz (Ukrainian: Ванда Козакевич; 1917–1989), French theatre actress in the 1940s, was one of Jean-Paul Sartre's love interests and Olga Kosakiewicz's sister. Sartre wrote that she was one of the reasons that his friendship with Albert Camus went sour.
She Came to Stay (French, L'Invitée) is a novel written by French author Simone de Beauvoir first published in 1943. The novel is a fictional account of her and Jean-Paul Sartre 's relationship with Olga Kosakiewicz and Wanda Kosakiewicz .
"L'Invitée" ("She Came to Stay") is not exactly a roman à clef, but it is heavily autobiographical, as Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre really were in a strange ménage à trois with a younger woman named Olga Kosakiewicz (and eventually Olga's sister Wanda) for many years.
In 1933, when she was teaching in Rouen, Beauvoir had a seventeen-year-old student named Olga Kosakiewicz, a daughter of a Russian émigré who had been dispossessed by the Revolution.
In 1943, Beauvoir published She Came to Stay, a fictionalized chronicle of her and Sartre's relationship with Olga Kosakiewicz and Wanda Kosakiewicz. Olga was one of her students in the Rouen secondary school where Beauvoir taught during the early 30s.
Mar 10, 2014 · But although Sartre admired Olga, a charismatic performer, Wanda was as close as he ever got to her; it further wounded the little man with the big ego when the somewhat dim Wanda told him that...
Feb 13, 1995 · In the 10 months before he became a German prisoner on June 21, 1940, Sartre wrote hundreds of letters -- to Simone de Beauvoir, to his mistress, Wanda Kosakiewicz, and to other close friends.
