Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter

Informationen zum Autor Simone de Beauvoir (1908-86) was a French philosopher, novelist and essayist, and the lifelong companion of Jean-Paul Sartre. De Beauvoir's first book, L'Invitée , was published in 1943. In 1945 she published Le Sang des autres , a novel dealing with the question of political involvement. De Beauvoir's breakthrough work was the semi-autobiographical Les Mandarins (1954), which won the Prix Goncourt. Roman Catholic authorities banned it and de Beauvoir's feminist classic The Second Sex (1949), in which de Beauvoir argued that "one is not born a woman; one becomes one". Klappentext Simone de Beauvoir (1908-86) French philosopher, novelist, and essayist, the lifelong companion of Jean-Paul Sartre. Beauvoir's first book, L'Invit¿ was published in 1943. In 1945 Beauvoir published Le Sang des autres, a novel dealing with the question of political involvement. Beauvoir's breakthrough work was semiautobiographical Les Mandarins (1954), which won the Prix Concourt. Roman Catholic authorities banned it and Beauvoir's feminist classic The Second Sex (1949), in which Beauvoir argued that "one is not born a woman; one becomes one". In 1958 Beauvoir published M¿ires d'une jeune fille rang¿ the first of four volume memoirs. She described her happy childhood, intellectual development and of course Sartre. It was followed by La Force de l'¿ (1960), La Force des choses (1963), and Tout compte fait (1972), Zusammenfassung A memoir that offers a picture of the author's growing up in a bourgeois French family, rebelling as an adolescent against the conventional expectations of her class, and striking out on her own with an intellectual and existential ambition exceedingly rare in a young woman in the 1920s.

Product details

• Authors: Simone de Beauvoir, Simone de Beauvoir, James Kirkup
• Assisted by: James Kirkup (Translation), Kirkup James (Translation)
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 22.02.2001
• EAN: 9780141185330
• ISBN: 978-0-14-118533-0
• No. of pages: 368
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 196 mm x 17 mm
• Series: Penguin Modern Classics; Penguin Modern Classics; Penguin Classics
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women, France, 20th Century, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / French, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, LITERARY CRITICISM / Feminist, Autobiography: literary, Early 20th century c 1900 to c 1950, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Autobiography: writers