Probably de Beauvoir's strangest and most compelling novel, this is the captivating story of a beautiful young actress who revives a downcast stranger at a French resort. He becomes thoroughly attached to her and confides a terrifying truth: he is immortal. But having been resuscitated into enjoying life again, he soon starts breaking free from her grasp and all notions of mortality.
Probably de Beauvoir's strangest and most compelling novel, this is the captivating story of a beautiful young actress who revives a downcast stranger...
An unflinching look at Parisian intellectual society at the end of World War II. In fictionally relating the stories of those around her - Jean-Paul Satre, Albert Camus, Arthur Koestler, Nelson Algren - de Beauvoir dissects the emotional and philosophical currents of her time.
An unflinching look at Parisian intellectual society at the end of World War II. In fictionally relating the stories of those around her - Jean-Paul S...
In three -immensely intelligent stories about the decay of passion- (The Sunday Herald Times London]), Simone de Beauvoir draws us into the lives of three women, all past their first youth, all facing unexpected crises. Enthralling as faction, suffused with de Beauvoir's remarkable insights into women, The Woman Destroyed gives us a legendary writer at her best.
In three -immensely intelligent stories about the decay of passion- (The Sunday Herald Times London]), Simone de Beauvoir draws us into the...
A Very Easy Death has long been considered one of Simone de Beauvoir's masterpieces. The profoundly moving, day-by-day recounting of her mother's death -shows the power of compassion when it is allied with acute intelligence- (The Sunday Telegraph). Powerful, touching, and sometimes shocking, this is an end-of-life account that no reader is likely to forget.
A Very Easy Death has long been considered one of Simone de Beauvoir's masterpieces. The profoundly moving, day-by-day recounting of her mot...
In 1983 de Beauvoir published Sartre's letters, and when asked about her own letters to him, she replied that they had been lost. But after her death, her literary executor and adopted daughter, Sylvie Le Bon Beauvoir, stumbled upon a parcel of faded letters addressed to Monsieur Sartre.
In 1983 de Beauvoir published Sartre's letters, and when asked about her own letters to him, she replied that they had been lost. But after her death,...
Includes the full French text, accompanied by French-English vocabulary. Notes and a detailed introduction in English put the work in its social and historical context.
Includes the full French text, accompanied by French-English vocabulary. Notes and a detailed introduction in English put the work in its social and h...
A superb autobiography by one of the great literary figures of the twentieth century, Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter offers an intimate picture of 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. Simone de Beavoir describes her early life, from her birth in Paris in 1908 to her student days at the Sorbonne, where she met Jean-Paul sartre - 'the dream-companion I had longed for since I was fifteen'.
A superb autobiography by one of the great literary figures of the twentieth century, Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter offers an intimate picture of grow...
Simone de Beauvoirs Buch über das Alter ragt durch die einzigartige Fülle des ausgebreiteten Materials wie durch die Vielfalt neuer Einsichten und Perspektiven unter allen wissenschaftlichen und philosophischen Abhandlungen dieses Themas heraus.
Simone de Beauvoirs Buch über das Alter ragt durch die einzigartige Fülle des ausgebreiteten Materials wie durch die Vielfalt neuer Einsichten und P...
1947 lernte Simone de Beauvoir den Schriftsteller Nelson Algren in Chicago kennen. Die beiden verliebten sich ineinander - eine Liebe, die nur drei Jahre währte, denn der"Pakt", den die berühmte Autorin mit J.-P. Sartre schloss, verletzte und kränkte den Mann, der Simone de Beauvoir liebte und sie heiraten wollte. Die Liebesbriefe zeigen eine Frau, die unverstellt die Sprache der Liebe spricht, verletzlich, ausgeliefert und befreit vom Jargon der öffentlichen und offenen Liaison mit Sartre - zum Entsetzen derer, die ihrer Ikone diese Freiheit bis heute nicht zugestehen wollen.
1947 lernte Simone de Beauvoir den Schriftsteller Nelson Algren in Chicago kennen. Die beiden verliebten sich ineinander - eine Liebe, die nur drei Ja...
Eine ganze Epoche des geistigen Frankreich mit seiner literarischen, philosophischen und politischen Avantgarde wird hier lebendig: Camus, Genet, Prevert, Picasso. Es ist jenes glückliche Dezennium, in dem sich die junge Lyzeal-Lehrerin mit Sartre befreundet und zur Schriftstellerin entfaltet.
Eine ganze Epoche des geistigen Frankreich mit seiner literarischen, philosophischen und politischen Avantgarde wird hier lebendig: Camus, Genet, Prev...