Escape from Freedom vs La belle bête: Which Should You Read?
Both live on shelves: Liberté, Freedom, Liberty
Escape from Freedom
Escape from Freedom is a book by the Frankfurt-born psychoanalyst Erich Fromm, first published in the United States by Farrar & Rinehart in 1941 with the title Escape from Freedom and a year later as The Fear of Freedom…
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La belle bête
Peintres, musiciens, poètes, photographes, chorégraphes multiplient les regards égoïstes ou généreux sur l'univers que décrit Marie-Claire Blais, le plus souvent impuissants face à sa destruction qu'ils fuient dans…
The verdict
- Readers rate Escape from Freedom highest: Escape from Freedom 4.3 · La belle bête 3.6.
- La belle bête is the quickest read — about 2 hours vs 5 for Escape from Freedom.
- Escape from Freedom has the widest readership — 16760 ratings behind its score.
How to choose
Scores by source
| Escape from Freedom | La belle bête | |
|---|---|---|
| Goodreads | 4.3 (16760) | 3.6 (899) |
| Hardcover | 4.1 (30) | 4.0 (1) |
| Apple Books | 4.5 (26) | — |
Reception
| Escape from Freedom | La belle bête | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 16760 | 899 |
| Editions | 89 | 30 |
| Film adaptations | 1 | — |
| Want to read | 47450 | — |
| Reading it now | 2927 | — |
| Written reviews | 1224 | — |
| Wikipedia attention | 3143 | — |
| Pages | 276 | 125 |