Author: Simone de Beauvoir
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0679724516
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 791

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The classic manifesto of the liberated woman, this book explores every facet of a woman's life.

Author: Deirdre Bair
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0671741802
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 724

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This definitive biography is based on five years of interviews with de Beauvoir, and is written with her full cooperation. Bair penetrates the mystique of this brilliant and often paradoxical woman, who has been called one of the great minds of the 20th century, and surely, one of the most famously unconventional figures of her generation. "As a reference work . . . Simone de Beauvoir can be considered definitive".--The Atlantic. 16-page photographic insert.

Author: Simone de Beauvoir
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393318845
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 412

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Set in Paris on the eve of World War II, the novel draws upon Simone de Beauvoir's relationship with Jean-Paul Sartre, and the affair that almost destroyed it.

Author: Simone de Beauvoir
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393308457
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 356

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After a beautiful and accomplished young actress revives a downcast stranger at a French resort, he reveals that he is immortal.

Author: Simone de Beauvoir
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520210677
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 414

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A portrait of 1940s America by a French writer, eg. "The constipated girl smiles a loving smile at the lemon juice that relieves her intestines. In the subway, in the streets, on magazine pages, these smiles pursue me like obsessions. I read on a sign in a drugstore, 'Not to grin is a sin.' Everyone obeys the order, the system. 'Cheer up! Take it easy.' Optimism is necessary for the country's social peace and economic prosperity."

Author: Simone de Beauvoir
Publisher: Marlowe & Company
ISBN: 9781569249567
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 479

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The author recalls her life in Paris in the formative years of 1929 to 1944, telling of her relationship with Jean-Paul Sartre and of Parisian intellectual life of the 1930s and 1940s.

Author: Kate Kirkpatrick
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350047198
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 278

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“One is not born a woman, but becomes one”, Simone de Beauvoir A symbol of liberated womanhood, Simone de Beauvoir's unconventional relationships inspired and scandalised her generation. A philosopher, writer, and feminist icon, she won prestigious literary prizes and transformed the way we think about gender with The Second Sex. But despite her successes, she wondered if she had sold herself short. Her liaison with Jean-Paul Sartre has been billed as one of the most legendary love affairs of the twentieth century. But for Beauvoir it came at a cost: for decades she was dismissed as an unoriginal thinker who 'applied' Sartre's ideas. In recent years new material has come to light revealing the ingenuity of Beauvoir's own philosophy and the importance of other lovers in her life. This ground-breaking biography draws on never-before-published diaries and letters to tell the fascinating story of how Simone de Beauvoir became herself.

Author: Simone de Beauvoir
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN:
Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 216

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Author: Lisa Appignanesi
Publisher: Haus Publishing
ISBN: 9781904950097
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 196

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Born in 1908, Simone de Beauvoir was a brilliant scholar and novelist, leading member of the existentialist movement and a committed socialist and feminist. Raised in a stiflingly respectable environment, as a young woman she totally rejected her parentsâ values and embarked on her literary career. With Jean-Paul Sartre she formed a unique relationship, which she described as âThe one undoubted success in my lifeâ. Later in life she was committed to achieving radical social and political change, but it was writing that gave meaning to her life; above everything, she valued her own intellectual audience.

Author: Simone De Beauvoir
Publisher: Pantheon
ISBN: 0307832171
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 200

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One of the most influential thinkers of her generation draws us into the lives of three women, all past their first youth, all facing unexpected crises in these three “immensely intelligent stories about the decay of passion” (The Sunday Herald Times). Suffused with de Beauvoir’s remarkable insights into women, The Woman Destroyed gives us a legendary writer at her best. Includes "The Age of Discretion," "The Monologue," and "The Woman Destroyed." "Witty, immensely adroit...These three women are believable individuals presented with a wry mixture of sympathy and exasperation." —The Atlantic