Simone de Beauvoir
Simone de Beauvoir was a French author and philosopher. She wrote novels, monographs on philosophy, political and social issues, essays, biographies, and an autobiography. She is now best known for her metaphysical novels, including She Came to Stay and The Mandarins, and for her 1949 treatise The Second Sex, a detailed analysis of women's oppression and a foundational tract of contemporary feminism.----Simone de Beauvoir est née à Paris le 9 janvier 1908. Elle fit ses études jusqu'au baccalauréat dans le très catholique cours Désir. Agrégée de philosophie en 1929, elle enseigna à Marseille, à Rouen et à Paris jusqu'en 1943. C'est L'Invitée (1943) qu'on doit considérer comme son véritable début littéraire. Viennent ensuite Le sang des autres (1945), Tous les hommes sont mortels (1946), Les Mandarins (prix Goncourt 1954), Les Belles Images (1966) et La Femme rompue (1968). Simone de Beauvoir a écrit des mémoires où elle nous donne elle-même à connaître sa vie, son œuvre. L'ampleur de l'entreprise autobiographique trouve sa justification, son sens, dans une contradiction essentielle à l'écrivain : choisir lui fut toujours impossible entre le bonheur de vivre et la nécessité d'écrire ; d'une part la splendeur contingente, de l'autre la rigueur salvatrice. Faire de sa propre existence l'objet de son écriture, c'était en partie sortir de ce dilemme. Outre le célèbre Deuxième sexe (1949) devenu l'ouvrage de référence du mouvement féministe mondial, l'œuvre théorique de Simone de Beauvoir comprend de nombreux essais philosophiques ou polémiques. Après la mort de Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir a publié La Cérémonie des adieux (1981) et les Lettres au Castor (1983) qui rassemblent une partie de l'abondante correspondance qu'elle reçut de lui. Jusqu'au jour de sa mort, le 14 avril 1986, elle a collaboré activement à la revue fondée par Sartre et elle-même, Les Temps Modernes, et manifesté sous des formes diverses et innombrables sa solidarité avec le féminisme.
The Woman Destroyed
Simone de Beauvoir
Three long stories that draw the reader into the lives of three women, all past their first youth, all facing unexpected crises.
The Second Sex
Simone de Beauvoir
Newly translated and unabridged in English for the first time, Simone de Beauvoir’s masterwork is a powerful analysis of the Western notion of “woman,” and a groundbreaking exploration of inequality and otherness. This long-awaited new 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 it was back then, and will continue to provoke and inspire generations of men and women to come.
Inseparable
Simone de Beauvoir
A never-before-published novel by the iconic Simone de Beauvoir of an intense and vivid girlhood friendship
From the moment Sylvie and Andrée meet in their Parisian day school, they see in each other an accomplice with whom to confront the mysteries of girlhood. For the next ten years, the two are the closest of friends and confidantes as they explore life in a post-World War One France, and as Andrée becomes increasingly reckless and rebellious, edging closer to peril.
Sylvie, insightful and observant, sees a France of clashing ideals and religious hypocrisy—and at an early age is determined to form her own opinions. Andrée, a tempestuous dreamer, is inclined to melodrama and romance. Despite their different natures they rely on each other to safeguard their secrets while entering adulthood in a world that did not pay much attention to the wills and desires of young women.
Deemed too intimate to publish during Simone de Beauvoir’s life, Inseparable offers fresh insight into the groundbreaking feminist’s own coming-of-age; her transformative, tragic friendship with her childhood friend Zaza Lacoin; and how her youthful relationships shaped her philosophy. Sandra Smith’s vibrant translation of the novel will be long cherished by de Beauvoir devotees and first-time readers alike.
Başkalarının Kanı
Simone de Beauvoir
Simone de Beauvoir'ın her zamanki canlı, kendilerini ve dünyayı sorgulayan, düşünen, sorumluluk taşıyan unutulmaz tipleri var karşımızda. Varolma savaşı içinde genç kuşaktan insanlar bunlar. Anamalcı bir dünyanın sorunları içinde bunalan, çıkış yolları arayan gençler. Ailelerine, çevrelerine hatta kendi oluşumlarına başkaldırarak, kendileriyle birlikte tüm dünyayı çıkmazdan, mutsuzluktan, yalanlardan kurtarma yolları arıyorlar. 'Herbirimiz her şey için ve herkese karşı sorumluyuz.' Yazar, bu görüşten hareket ederek, kahramanlarını toplumsal-tarihsel gerçekliğin içinde ele alıyor Gençleri içinde bulundukları açmazlardan kurtaracak olan nedir? Aşk mı? Politika mı? Yoksa eylem mi? Avrupa'da karanlık, insanlık dışı günlerin yaşandığı bir ortamda yurtsever bir önder olan Jean Blomart, sonsuz bir gece boyunca, yaralı âşığı Hélène'in başucunda ölmesini bekler. Kendi yaşamının, kızın yaşamının geçmiş anıları, bir başarısızlık duygusu, kızın ölümünden duyduğu suçluluk ve umutsuzluk duyguları onu acı bir şekilde tüm gece boyunca sürükler götürür. Romanın anlatım tekniği, sarsılmış ve parçalanmakta olan bir dünyayı duyumsatır gibidir. (Arka Kapak)
A Very Easy Death
Simone de Beauvoir
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 ever likely to forget.
Mémoires d'une jeune fille rangée
Simone de Beauvoir
Sartre répondait exactement au vœu de mes quinze ans : il était le double en qui je retrouvais, portées à l'incandescence, toutes mes manies. Avec lui, je pourrais toujours tout partager. Quand je le quittai au début d'août, je savais que plus jamais il ne sortirait de ma vie.
The Mandarins
Simone de Beauvoir
In her most famous novel, Simone de Beauvoir does not flinch in her look at Parisian intellectual society at the end of the Second World War. Drawing on those who surrounded her—Jean-Paul Sartre, Albert Camus, Arthur Koestler—and her passionate love affair with Nelson Algren, Beauvoir dissects the emotional and philosophical currents of her time. At once an engrossing drama and an intriguing political tale, The Mandarins is the emotional odyssey of a woman torn between her inner desire and her public life.
The Mandarins won France's highest literary prize, the Prix Goncourt.
The Blood of Others
Simone de Beauvoir
Jean Blomart, patriot leader against the German forces of occupation, waits throughout an endless night for his lover, Helene, to die. He is the one who sent her on the mission that led to her death, and before morning, he must ultimately decide how many others to send to a similar fate.
All Men Are Mortal
Simone de Beauvoir
When the beautiful, ambitious actress Regina takes Fosca into her life and learns his amazing truth, she is obsessed with the thought that in his memory her performances will live forever. But, as he recounts the story of his immortal existence over more than six centuries, as she learns of his involvement in some of the most significant events in history and how human hope and love have withered in him, she finally understands the implications for him and for love.
Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter
Simone de Beauvoir
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 time in France politically.
Extracts From: The Second Sex
Simone de Beauvoir
Vintage classic feminist texts in short formWhen this book was first published in 1949 it was to outrage and scandal. Never before had the case for female liberty been so forcefully and successfully argued. De Beauvoir’s belief that ‘One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman’ switched on light bulbs in the heads of a generation of women and began a fight for greater equality and economic independence. These pages contain the key passages of the book that changed perceptions of women forever.
Die Mandarins von Paris: «Das mitreißende Werk einer großen Erzählerin.» Nicole Seifert. In neuer Übersetzung! (German Edition)
Simone de Beauvoir
Vor 70 Jahren erschienen, ausgezeichnet mit dem Prix Goncourt, jetzt in neuer Ü «Die Zeit ist reif für eine Wiederentdeckung. Das Epische, Politische, Zwischenmenschliche in Zeiten des ein großartiger Text!» (Nicole Seifert)
Paris nach dem Zweiten Die Mandarins, das sind die Caféhaus-Intellektuellen, die sich über Politik und Literatur die Köpfe heiß Wie kann ein gesellschaftlicher Neubeginn aussehen? De Beauvoir skizziert das Klima im Nachkriegsfrankreich mit stilistischem Geschick und Einfühlungsvermögen und lässt die wichtigsten Persönlichkeiten dieser Zeit lebendig werden, Camus, Sartre, Nelson Algren – und natürlich sich selbst. Anhand ihrer Hauptfigur, der Psychologin Anne Dubreuilh, lotet sie den schmerzhaften Riss aus, der zwischen öffentlichem und privatem Raum verläuft und so etwas wie die Grunderfahrung weiblichen Erlebens war – und immer noch ist? Die Aktualität dieses vielseitigen Buches ist kaum von der Hand zu die Neuordnung der Linken, die Zeit der großen politischen Umbrüche und vor allem des Feminismus in einer Zeit, in der patriarchale und nationalistische Tendenzen wieder erstarken und sich auch im Privaten widerspiegeln.
Ein erstaunliches Werk von intellektueller Beweglichkeit, aber auch eine Liebesgeschichte von großer Leidenschaft und Tiefe.
What Is Existentialism?
Simone de Beauvoir
'It is possible for man to snatch the world from the darkness of absurdity'How should we think and act in the world? These writings on the human condition by one of the twentieth century's great philosophers explore the absurdity of our notions of good and evil, and show instead how we make our own destiny simply by being.
One of twenty new books in the bestselling Penguin Great Ideas series. This new selection showcases a diverse list of thinkers who have helped shape our world today, from anarchists to stoics, feminists to prophets, satirists to Zen Buddhists.
Il secondo sesso
Simone de Beauvoir
Nel 1949 esce «Il secondo sesso» che fece, allo stesso tempo, successo e scandalo. Con veemenza da polemista di razza, de Beauvoir passa in rassegna i ruoli attribuiti dal pensiero maschile alla donna e i relativi attributi. In questo saggio l'autrice si esprime in un linguaggio nuovo, parla di controllo delle nascite e di aborto, sfida i cultori del bel sesso con "le ovaie e la matrice". Affronta temi il tema della sessualità, il lesbismo, la prostituzione, l'educazione religiosa e la maternità, indicando alle donne la via per l'indipendenza e l'emancipazione. Provocando il pubblico conservatore, de Beauvoir cerca riconoscimento personale e solidarietà collettiva, e li avrà: l'opera, di respiro universale, è diventata una tra le fondamentali del Novecento.
Die Welt der schönen Bilder
Simone de Beauvoir
Mit Schärfe und Ironie schildert Simone de Beauvoir die Gesellschaft der Neureichen, in der Gefühle zu Werbespots werden. Die Menschen dieses Romans ersticken an den Lügen und Heuchelein der spätkapitalistischen Welt, beherrscht von Statussymbolen, von «schönen Bildern».
Misunderstanding in Moscow
Simone de Beauvoir
Nicole and André, a retired French couple, take a summer holiday to Russia. It is the 1960s and Russia is a beautiful, complicated place. Their guide is Macha, André's daughter from a previous relationship - a woman they both love. Adventure, inspiration, good food and good vodka are promised.
Once thrilled by their romance, Nicole and André have now become too used to each other. Both harbour a growing feeling of not being fully understood - of being alone. Father and daughter engage in the grand debates of East-West relations, nationalism and socialism. But getting older, long-term relationships and how to enjoy life turn out to be the more pressing issues.
The Ethics of Ambiguity
Simone de Beauvoir
Simone de Beauvoir, novelist, dramatist, and philosopher, was the most distinguished woman writer in modern France. A leading exponent of French existentialism, her work complements, though it is independent of, that of her great friend Jean-Paul Sartre. In "The Ethics of Ambiguity," Madame de Beauvoir penetrates at once to the core ethical problems of modern man: what shall he do, how shall he go about making values, in the face of this awareness of the absurdity of his existence? She forces the reader to face the absurdity of the human condition, and then, having done so, proceeds to develop a dialectic of ambiguity which will enable him not to master the chaos, but to create with it.
Inseparabilele
Simone de Beauvoir
Scris în 1954, la cinci ani după publicarea eseului Al doilea sex, romanul Inseparabilele spune povestea prieteniei pasionale care le unește pe Sylvie și Andrée – alter ego-urile lui Simone de Beauvoir și Elisabeth Lacoin (Zaza) – de la vârsta de nouă ani, când se întâlnesc la faimoasa școală Desir. Andrée este veselă, insolentă, îndrăzneață, în timp ce Sylvie, mai tradiționalistă și mai timidă, se simte irezistibil atrasă de această personalitate solară. Împreună învață să se elibereze de convențiile și așteptările sufocante ale celor din jur, ignorând prețul tragic pe care trebuie să-l plătească pentru libertate și pentru ambițiile lor intelectuale și existențiale.
Publicarea acestei povești cathartice, poate prea revelatoare ca să vadă lumina tiparului în timpul vieții autoarei, completată cu fotografii personale și fragmente din corespondența celor două prietene, constituie un adevărat eveniment literar.
„Inseparabilele pune în lumină un capitol formativ din copilăria autoarei, având ca fundal o relație strânsă care i-a modelat concepțiile despre sexism și despre inegalitatea dintre sexe. De asemenea, oferind o nouă perspectivă asupra evoluției lui Simone de Beauvoir ca scriitoare, cartea ar putea chiar să modifice viziunea cercetătorilor și cititorilor asupra moștenirii sale literare.” The New York Times
„Cel mai intim roman al lui Simone de Beauvoir, un material exploziv, în care autoarea și-a consemnat primele preocupări, flirturile cu lumea, dorințele împărtășite, a scris despre activismul natural manifestat de două femei care comunicau intim pe toate planurile.” El Español
„O poveste autobiografică, pasională și tragică.” Vanity Fair
„O carte neașteptată, care intrigă și fascinează.” El Pais
Una morte dolcissima
Simone de Beauvoir
Con l'avanzare del male, il mondo esterno perde sempre piú consistenza, fino a scomparire. Rimane solo la camera d'ospedale in cui tre donne, la madre e le figlie, continuano a combattere da una trincea impossibile. In questo microcosmo che attende l'imminente catastrofe, vivono anche altri personaggi: i medici, preoccupati di sperimentare sulla paziente la loro scienza; le infermiere, impassibili nella sicurezza dei loro gesti professionali; e le ombre della vita già trascorsa, delle occasioni perdute, di una borghese vicenda matrimoniale vissuta dalla madre come una grande avventura...
Da questa cronaca commossa nasce una forza di attaccamento alla vita che non è pura invenzione letteraria; nasce il piacere di ritrovare antichi gesti consolatori, una umana attenzione per gli altri, che fanno del romanzo anche una dolce speranza di vita.
All said and done
Simone de Beauvoir
'All Said and Done... offers us ten years (1962-72) not so much of experience realised (although this is exceptionally packed with incident) as an imaginative and intellectual transmutation of such experience. It is a deeply serious, wholly absorbing, and marvellously stimulating testimony, which gives a complete feeling of maturity and confidence in the autobiographer who comes through with tremendous honesty and admirable lucidity and precision... it inspires one to live, to look again, to learn more, to know more deeply the people and social systems which constitute our world. It throws open the windows, and simultaneously enables one better to examine the room behind one.' - Kay Dick in the Spectator.
Memorias de una joven formal
Simone de Beauvoir
Nacida en una familia católica y burguesa que no espera de ella sino que se convierta en una «joven formal», contra la que se irá rebelando a medida que madura, Simone de Beauvoir relata en Memorias de una joven formal su despertar al hábito de lectura y de escritura, la relación cercana con su familia y su entrañable amiga Zara, junto con la situación de Francia tras la Primera Guerra Mundial y los estragos que ésta provocó en su hogar y en su país. Con todo, poco a poco, la niña que fue Beauvoir nos cuenta quién fue, pero también, y sobre todo, la época en la que vivió, en sus aspectos sociales, culturales y políticos. Una pequeña joya autobiográfica, sin lugar a dudas. Beauvoir marcó un antes y un después en la literatura femenina y el feminismo en el siglo xx, y está considerada como una autora fundamental
La invitada
Simone de Beauvoir
Sobre el fondo del mundo teatral y artístico del París de la primera mitad del siglo XX, Simone de Beauvoir recrea con sólido talento la creación, evolución y disgregación de un triángulo amoroso formado por dos adultos y una jovencita que, a su vez, sirve a la autora para poner en cuestión el modelo burgués de pareja y de familia. En esta impactante novela aparecen ya los grandes temas que caracterizan la obra de Simone de Beauvoir (la libertad, la acción y la libertad individuales), y la profundidad de los personajes y la exploración acerca de sus sentimientos que lleva a acabo la autora convierten La invitada en una de sus mejores obras.
Set in Paris on the eve of World War II and sizzling with love, anger, and revenge, She Came to Stay draws on Simone de Beauvoir's relationship with Jean-Paul Sartre and the affair that almost destroyed it. It digs deep into the changes wrought in the soul of a woman and a city soon to fall. Although Françoise considers her relationship with Pierre an open one, she falls prey to jealousy when the gamine Xavière catches his attention. The moody young woman from the countryside pries her way between Françoise and Pierre, playing up to each one and deviously pulling them apart, until the only way out of the triangle is destruction.
Adieux: A Farewell to Sartre
Simone de Beauvoir
Simone de Beauvoir's account of the last ten years of Jean-Paul Sartre's life provides a focus for understanding one of the greatest thinkers of the twentieth century. But the book, consisting of both a year-by-year account of Sartre's last decade and a conversation between him and de Beauvoir about his life and work, is more than just a philosophical examination. It is also a personal dialogue of astonishing frankness that illuminates one of the most famous and complex relationships of the twentieth century.
Translated by Patrick O'Brian
El segundo sexo
Simone de Beauvoir
El segundo sexo no sólo ha nutrido a todo el feminismo que se ha hecho en la segunda mitad del siglo, sino que es el ensayo feminista más importante de la centuria. Todo lo que se ha escrito después en el campo de la teoría feminista ha tenido que contar con esta obra, bien para continuarla en sus planteamientos y seguir desarrollándolos, bien para criticarlos oponiéndose a ellos. "El segundo sexo", que es el ensayo de una filósofa existencialista, se encuadra en el ámbito más amplio de un pensamiento ilustrado que toma de la ilustración precisamente sus aspectos positivos, emancipatorios; ante todo, una concepción igualitaria de los seres humanos, según la cual la diferencia de sexos no altera su radical igualdad de condición. Al mismo tiempo, es un ensayo filosófico que analiza el hecho de la condición femenina en las sociedades occidentales desde múltiples puntos de vista: el científico, el histórico, el psicológico, el sociológico, el ontológico y el cultural. Se trata de un estudio totalizador donde se investiga el porqué de la situación en que se encuentra esa mitad de la humanidad que somos las mujeres.
Ошукана жінка
Simone de Beauvoir
Ім’я всесвітньо відомої феміністки Симони де Бовуар перш за все асоціюється із її класичною соціологічно-філософською працею «Друга стать», принаймні в нашій країні. Проте не менш цікавою є її художня проза. До цієї книги увійшли два невеличких романи «Свідомий вік» і «Ошукана жінка», а також «Монолог», невеличкий твір, чий літературний жанр можна визначити не інакше, як, власне, «монолог».
La Femme rompue
Simone de Beauvoir
« Dis-moi pourquoi tu rentres si tard.
Il n'a rien répondu.
- Vous avez bu ? Joué au poker ? Vous êtes sortis ? Tu as oublié l'heure ?
Il continuait à se taire, avec une espèce d'insistance, en faisant tourner son verre entre ses doigts. J'ai jeté par hasard des mots absurdes pour le faire sortir de ses gonds et lui arracher une explication :
- Qu'est-ce qui se passe ? Il y a une femme dans ta vie ?
Sans me quitter des yeux, il a dit :
- Oui, Monique, il y a une femme dans ma vie. »
Nierozłączne
Simone de Beauvoir
Nieznana powieść Simone de Beauvoir publikowana pierwszy raz po ponad pół wieku od powstania.
Do klasy dziewięcioletniej Sylvie dołącza nowa uczennica. Andrée jest nieprzeciętnie inteligentna, zabawna, żywiołowa, ma własne zdanie na każdy temat i wyraźnie odstaje nie tylko od koleżanek, ale też od obrazu przykładnej panienki z dobrego domu. Dziewczynki szybko odnajdują wspólny język i mimo sprzeciwu nauczycielek i matki Andrée spędzają ze sobą coraz więcej czasu.
Przez kolejne lata podziwiana niezależność Andrée kruszy się na oczach Sylvie kawałek po kawałku, zostaje zduszona przez restrykcyjne wymagania ślepego na własne błędy społeczeństwa. Zaciskająca się pętla konwenansów i obłudnej religijności doprowadza do tragedii.
De Beauvoir napisała tę powieść w 1954 roku, dwadzieścia pięć lat po nagłej śmierci swojej najbliższej przyjaciółki. Pozostawiła tekst bez tytułu, nigdy go też nie opublikowała. Teraz, pod wieloma względami wciąż boleśnie aktualny, po raz pierwszy zostaje oddany w ręce czytelników.
Le deuxième sexe, I
Simone de Beauvoir
Nous commencerons par discuter les points de vue pris sur la femme par la biologie, la psychanalyse, le matérialisme historique. Nous essaierons de montrer ensuite positivement comment la « réalité féminine » s'est constituée, pourquoi la femme a été définie comme l'Autre et quelles en ont été les conséquences du point de vue des hommes. Alors nous décrirons du point de vue des femmes le monde tel qu'il leur est proposé ; et nous pourrons comprendre à quelles difficultés elles se heurtent au moment où, essayant de s'évader de la sphère qui leur a été jusqu'à présent assignée, elles prétendent participer au mitsein humain.
The Inseperables
Simone de Beauvoir
When Andrée joins her school, Sylvie is immediately fascinated. Andrée is small for her age, but walks with the confidence of an adult. Under her red coat, se hides terrible burn scars. And when she imagines beautiful things, she gets goosebumps... Secretly Sylvie believes that Andrée is a prodigy about whom books will be written.
The girls become close. They talk for hours about equality, justice, war and religion; they lose respect for their teachers; they build a world of their own. But they can't stay like this forever.
Written in 1954, five years after The Second Sex, the novel was never published in Simone de Beauvoir's lifetime. This first English edition includes an afterword by her adopted daughter, who discovered the manuscript hidden in a drawer, and photographs of the real-life friendship which inspired and tormented the author.
Quando tutte le donne del mondo...
Simone de Beauvoir
"Penso che il femminismo sia una causa comune per l'uomo e per la donna, e che gli uomini riusciranno a vivere in un mondo più equo, meglio organizzato, un mondo più valido, soltanto quando le donne avranno uno status più equo e valido; la conquista dell'uguaglianza li riguarda entrambi".
Simone de Beauvoir
Famiglia, contraccezione, amore, aborto, violenza: attraverso articoli, interviste, note, Simone de Beauvoir affronta senza reticenze la vera uguaglianza dei sessi una conquista necessaria al progresso della società.
Pubblicato nel 1982, le pagine militanti di questo libro conservano una straordinaria e bruciante attualità, soprattutto oggi che alcuni diritti civili, conseguiti grazie alle lotte del movimento femminista, vengono messi in discussione da certi ambienti politici e confessionali.
La mujer rota
Simone de Beauvoir
Se escuchan aquí las voces de tres mujeres, en los tres relatos que incluye esta obra (La mujer rota, La edad de la discreción y Mónologo), que se debaten con palabras en situaciones sin salida: la edad, la soledad, la agonía del amor. Metáforas, a la vez, de esa parte de fracaso que todo destino humano depara. A pesar del tiempo transcurrido desde la escritura y publicación de La mujer rota, la imagen que dibuja el texto guarda correspondencia con el presente de la mujer actual dentro de nuestra sociedad, que en no pocos aspectos ha variado poco.
Le deuxième sexe, II
Simone de Beauvoir
Comment la femme fait-elle l'apprentissage de sa condition, comment l'éprouve-t-elle, dans quel univers se trouve-t-elle enfermée, quelles évasions lui sont permises, voilà ce que je chercherai à décrire. Alors seulement nous pourrons comprendre quels problèmes se posent aux femmes qui, héritant d'un lourd passé, s'efforcent de forger un avenir nouveau. Quand j'emploie les mots « femme » ou « féminin » je ne me réfère évidemment à aucun archétype, à aucune immuable essence ; après la plupart de mes affirmations il faut sous-entendre « dans l'état actuel de l'éducation et des mœurs ». Il ne s'agit pas ici d'énoncer des vérités éternelles mais de décrire le fond commun sur lequel s'enlève toute existence féminine singulière.
Le Deuxième Sexe, Tome I
Simone de Beauvoir
«Nous commencerons par discuter les points de vue pris sur la femme par la biologie, la psychanalyse, le matérialisme historique. Nous essaierons de montrer ensuite positivement comment la "réalité féminine" s'est constituée, pourquoi la femme a été définie comme l'Autre et quelles en ont été les conséquences du point de vue des hommes. Alors nous décrirons du point de vue des femmes le monde tel qu'il leur est proposé ; et nous pourrons comprendre à quelles difficultés elles se heurtent au moment où, essayant de s'évader de la sphère qui leur a été jusqu'à présent assignée, elles prétendent participer au mitsein humain.»
Simone de Beauvoir.
El segundo sexo. Lectura crítica de la Introducción y la Conclusión
Simone de Beauvoir
The Second Sex is a hymn to human freedom and a classic of the existentialist movement. It also has claims to be the most important s ingle book in the history of feminism. In the forty years since its publication De Beauvoir's then revolutionary thesis - that the subordination of women is not a fact of nature but the product of social conditioning has become part of our everyday thinking.
Letters to Sartre
Simone de Beauvoir
Now backk in print, the lettes that caused a scandal wen first published, revealing de Beauvoir and Sartre as they had never been seen before.
The Inseparables
Simone de Beauvoir
In her 1963 memoir, “Force of Circumstance,” Simone de Beauvoir made a fleeting and tantalizing reference to a work of fiction she had abandoned. She described her attempt to write a story centered on her best friend Zaza, who died young of viral encephalitis.
In the decades since, literary scholars have wondered what became of the manuscript. Now the book, “The Inseparables,” is finally being published, after Beauvoir’s adopted daughter, Sylvie Le Bon de Beauvoir, decided to start releasing the works of fiction from the archive she inherited.
The 176-page novel, which is being released in France in the fall of 2020 and in the United States the following year, illuminates a formative chapter of Beauvoir’s early life, and a pivotal relationship that shaped her views on gender inequality and sexism.
From: nytimes.com/2020/04/28/books/coming-soon-new-fiction-from-simone-de-beauvoir.html
Misverstand in Moskou
Simone de Beauvoir
Nicole en André gaan na hun pensioen op reis naar Moskou. Daar zoeken ze Masja op, Andrés dochter uit een eerder huwelijk. Maar Moskou blijkt niet zo betoverend als toen ze er eerder waren, en hun relatie wordt op de proef gesteld. Nicole voelt zich oud en is jaloers op de relatie tussen André en Masja. Wanneer André besluit nog een week langer te blijven zonder Nicole barst de bom.
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