Simone de Beauvoir (Life & Times)

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 envitonment, as a young woman she totally rejected her parents' values and embarked on her literary career.

"This is an eloquent, clear-eyed, and readable portrait of an immensely complex and brilliant woman, and her ambivalence about being perceived as one. In this general but deeply researched biography, Lisa Appignanesi moves from the young philosophy student through her love affairs with Sartre, Algren, and Lanzmann through to her radicalized later years, contextualizing these events within de Beauvoir's work, avoiding facile biographical readings of it. On the contrary: the life and work come together here in mutually-reinforcing urgency. De Beauvoir is as relevant now as seventy years ago and this is an excellent overview of why." Lauren Elkin, author of Flâneuse: Women Walk the City in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice, and London
"'What a lot Lisa Appignanesi has packed into such a slim volume. This is the ideal introduction to Simone de Beauvoir, capturing the woman, the philosopher, the lover, the public intellectual, and the fluidity between these roles. Appignanesi is brilliantly nuanced on the emotional costs of de Beauvoir's complicated 'pact' with Sartre and on the way the philosophy emerged, hard-won, out of the life. It's a book that's attentive to de Beauvoir's times and alive to her urgent relevance to ours." Dr Lara Feigel, author of Free Woman


Autorentext
Lisa Appignanesi, a writer, novelist and former president of English PEN.

Klappentext
Simone de Beauvoir (1908-1986) always stood in the shadow of her lover and teacher, Jean-Paul Sartre, despite the fact that she was a brilliant writer and philosopher in her own right. Her monumental study "The Second Sex" made her a cult figure of the Feminist movement.

Inhalt
Introduction The Dutiful Daughter A Necessary Love Literature as Salvation The Ethics of Existentialism Being a Woman The Committed Intellectual The Exemplary Life A Radical Old Age Notes Chronology List of Works Further Readting Picture Sources Index

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