Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter (Perennial Classics)

Type

Book

Authors

Simone de Beauvoir

ISBN 10

0060825197

ISBN 13

9780060825195

Tags

Authors, France, Memoirs, Philosophers, Women, Criticism & Theory, French, Feminist Theory

Description

A superb autobiography by one of the great literary figures of the twentieth century, Simone de Beauvoir's 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.She vividly evokes her friendships, love interests, mentors, and the early days of the most important relationship of her life, with fellow student Jean-Paul Sartre, against the backdrop of a turbulent political time. - from Amzon

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