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  • Paperback: 416 pages
  • Publisher: HarperPerennial; New edition edition (16 Jan 2006)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0007204647
  • ISBN-13: 978-0007204649
  • Product Dimensions: 19.8 x 13 x 3 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 37,446 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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'Simone de Beauvoir has the true novelist's gift of selecting detail and creating individuals whilst refusing to sum up situations' A.S. BYATT 'Simone de Beauvoir is a writer whose every work I pounce on eagerly -- her vision is so wide, the tale she tells is so interesting, her characterisation so psychologically profound' YORKSHIRE POST


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Written as an act of revenge against the 17 year-old who came between her and Jean-Paul Sartre, She Came to Stay is Simone de Beauvoir's first novel -- a lacerating study of a young, naive couple in love and the usurping woman who comes between them. 'It is impossible to talk about faithfulness and unfaithfulness where we are oncerned. You and I are simply one. Neither of us can be described without the other.' It was unthinkable that Pierre and Francoise should ever tire of each other. And yet, both talented and restless, they constantly feel the need for new sensations, new people. Because of this they bring the young, beautiful and irresponsible Xaviere into their life who, determined to take Pierre for herself, drives a wedge between them, with unforeseeable, disastrous consequences! Published in 1943, 'She Came to Stay' is Simone de Beauvoir's first novel. Written as an act of revenge against the woman who nearly destroyed her now legendary, unorthodox relationship with the philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre, it fictionalises the events of 1935, when Sartre became infatuated with seventeen-year old Olga Bost, a pupil and devotee of de Beauvoir's. Passionately eloquent, coolly and devastatingly ironic, 'She Came to Stay' is one of the most extraordinary and powerful pieces of fictional autobiography of the twentieth century, in which de Beauvoir's 'tears for her characters freeze as they drop.'

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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Morally Ambiguous, 4 Feb 2002
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If you enjoyed Jean Paul Sartre's "Roads
To Freedom" existentialist novels, then
this book will also prove absorbing. The last
third seems to bring new depths and developments
to the characters and their situations and
it's almost like the reading equivalent of
peeling the onion. The way that France's
involvement with the Second World War
begins to permeate the idyllic (on the surface)
cafe lifestyle of Paris, more and more as
the book goes on is impressive. The ending
of the book is both grim and fascinating.
Depending on how you interpret it, it's
either a deeply disturbing and ugly end
to what's went before or it's a blackly
comic act of literary revenge/exorcism.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars Good Story, but too Long, 25 Sep 2008
This is Simone's first book which took her about 1 year to write. - The fact that this is her debut is manifested through the somewhat mediocre and repetitive writing, but to make up for that she has a good story and some very good character desriptions.

Adept describing emotions, Simone brings to life some of the foremost persons of post WW2 Parisian intellectual circles in vivid detail. So if you can handle the rather long read odds are that you will find this book well worth your effort.
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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Dark, dazzling and infuriating., 24 Oct 2000
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A menage a trois that is saturated with a bitter, disturbing jealousy. A beautiful narrative that weaves a web of assignations, petty truculence and ambiguous passion. Set in Paris Simone de Beauvoir captures the essence of the city & imbues it with the necessary haze of alcohol, smoke and sadness to set the scene for the ensuing nightmare of recriminations. De Beauvoir's characters are painstakingly depicted, each permeated with thier own aura of mystery and banality. A brilliant story, boldy told.
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