This volume of Simone de Beauvoir's legendary autobiography presents Beauvoir at the height of her international fame and portrays her inner struggle with aging. Beauvoir recounts her difficult long-distance romance with novelist Nelson Algren and her involvement with Claude Lanzmann (the future director of Shoah). She also vividly describes her travels with Sartre to Brazil and Cuba, reveals her private sense of despair in reaction to French atrocities in Algeria, and confronts her own deepening depression. Simone de Beauvoir's outstanding achievement is to have left us an admirable record...
This volume of Simone de Beauvoir's legendary autobiography presents Beauvoir at the height of her international fame and portrays her inner struggle ...
Simone d Margaret A. Simons Sylvie Le Bon Beauvoir
Written from September 1939 to January 1941, Simone de Beauvoir s Wartime Diary gives English readers unabridged access to one of the scandalous texts that threaten to overturn traditional views of Beauvoir s life and work. Beauvoir s account of her clandestine affair with Jacques Bost and sexual relationships with various young women challenges the conventional picture of Beauvoir as the devoted companion of Jean-Paul Sartre, just as her account of completing her novel She Came to Stay at a time when Sartre s philosophy in Being and Nothingness was barely begun calls...
Written from September 1939 to January 1941, Simone de Beauvoir s Wartime Diary gives English readers unabridged access to one of the scanda...
Simone d Constance Borde Sheila Malovany-Chevallier
Simone de Beauvoir's essential masterwork is a powerful analysis of the Western notion of "woman," and a revolutionary exploration of inequality and otherness. Unabridged in English for the first time, this long-awaited edition reinstates significant portions of the original French text that were cut in the first English translation. Vital and groundbreaking, Beauvoir's pioneering and impressive text remains as pertinent today as when it was first published, and will continue to provoke and inspire generations of men and women to come.
Simone de Beauvoir's essential masterwork is a powerful analysis of the Western notion of "woman," and a revolutionary exploration of inequality an...
This collection of classic titles by Beauvoir her most well know writings, The Second Sex and The Ethics Of Ambiguity as well as a biography of her life and a rare interview on her book The Second Sex. French writer and feminist, and Existentialist. She is known primarily for her treatise The Second Sex (1949), a scholarly and passionate plea for the abolition of what she called the myth of the "eternal feminine." It became a classic of feminist literature during the 1960s. Her novels expounded the major Existential themes, demonstrating her conception of the writer's commitment to the times....
This collection of classic titles by Beauvoir her most well know writings, The Second Sex and The Ethics Of Ambiguity as well as a biography of her li...
Political Writings offers an abundance of newly translated essays by Simone de Beauvoir that demonstrate a heretofore unknown side of her political philosophy. The volume traces nearly three decades of Beauvoir's leftist political engagement, from exposes of conditions in fascist Spain and Portugal in 1945 and hard-hitting attacks on right-wing French intellectuals in the 1950s, to the 1962 defense of an Algerian freedom fighter Djamila Boupacha and a 1975 article arguing for what is now called the "two-state solution" in Israel. In addition, this collection includes provocative essays in...
Political Writings offers an abundance of newly translated essays by Simone de Beauvoir that demonstrate a heretofore unknown side of her political ph...
By turns surprising and revelatory, this sixth volume in the Beauvoir Series presents newly discovered writings and lectures while providing new translations and contexts for Simone de Beauvoir's more familiar writings. Spanning Beauvoir's career from the 1940s through 1986, the pieces explain the paradoxes in her political and feminist stances, including her famous 1972 announcement of a "conversion to feminism" after decades of activism on behalf of women. Feminist Writings documents and contextualizes Beauvoir's thinking, writing, public statements, and activities in the services of...
By turns surprising and revelatory, this sixth volume in the Beauvoir Series presents newly discovered writings and lectures while providing new trans...
"""Sade ha intentado convertir su destino psicofisiologico en una eleccion moral. Y de ese acto, mediante el cual asumia la responsabilidad de su apartamiento, pretendio hacer un ejemplo y un llamado: es alli donde su aventura asume tan amplia significacion humana. Podemos, sin renegar de la individualidad, satisfacer nuestras aspiraciones a lo universal? O es solamente mediante el sacrificio de nuestras diferencias que logramos integrarnos en la colectividad? Este problema nosatane a todos. En el caso de Sade, las diferencias son llevadas hasta el escandalo y la magnitud de su tarea...
"""Sade ha intentado convertir su destino psicofisiologico en una eleccion moral. Y de ese acto, mediante el cual asumia la responsabilidad de su apar...
Memorias de una joven formal no solo funciona como una autobiografia de la protagonista, sino que en sus paginas podemos obtener una estupenda vision de las costumbres y la cultura francesa de principios del siglo XX: los conflictos sociales, las tendencias filosoficas, la gran tragedia de la Primera Guerra Mundial."
Memorias de una joven formal no solo funciona como una autobiografia de la protagonista, sino que en sus paginas podemos obtener una estupenda vision ...
