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Les Belles Images (Folio Series: 243) [French] [Mass Market Paperback]

Simone de Beauvoir
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  • Mass Market Paperback: 182 pages
  • Publisher: Editions Flammarion; Reprint edition (7 Nov 1972)
  • Language French
  • ISBN-10: 2070362434
  • ISBN-13: 978-2070362431
  • Product Dimensions: 17.6 x 10.8 x 1.3 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 276,614 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Au premier abord, ce livre est une critique des années soixante, écrit dans ce style ironique si typique de cette époque. Mais il n'en est rien. Je crois que Simone de Beauvoir a essayé de montrer tout simplement le désir d'immuabilité du monde; sa théorie est d'ailleurs appliquable à n'importe quelle époque. Nous nous sentons aujourd'hui supérieur aux gens des temps passés, nous les considérons naïfs et fats. Je dus plusieurs fois sourire à certaines visions très utopiques: "(Jean-Charles)En quatre-vingt-cinq, on aura exploré le système solaire (...)Nous voulons que les choses changent. Maintenant, on peut produire plus de nourriture qu'avant, et les transporter vite et facilement des pays riches aux pays pauvres.(...)Les déserts se sont couverts de blé, de légumes, de fruits, toute la terre est devenue la terre promise; gavés de lait, de riz, de tomates et d'oranges, tous les enfants souri- aient." Mais au fond, nous sommes restés les mêmes, nous aussi voulons envoyer des civils sur Mars en 2019;que penseront les gens de nous à ce moment-là? Eux, tout comme nous le faisons maintenant, se moqueront de nos rêves. Car tout ceci n'est-il pas finalement une façon comme une autre de soulager notre conscience?

Plus tard, je me suis demandée pourquoi avoir choisi ce titre, "les belles images". Le mot "image" semble d'ailleurs avoir une grande importance dans ce livre. Pourquoi?? Tout d'abord, dans un premier sens, Laurence vend des images publicitaires,"je ne vends pas des panneaux de bois:je vends la sécurité, la réussite, et une touche de poésie en supplément". D'ailleurs, elle se considère elle-même comme une image:"alors pendant des jours, je n'ai plus été une image mais chair et sang, désir, plaisir." Mais ce mot a ici plutôt une valeur symbolique:l'image que l'on donne (ou que l'on veut donner) de soi à la société. Dominique ne veut pas donner l'image d'une femme qui vieillit, c'est pourquoi elle sort chaque soir avec Gilbert. En fait, la plupart des personnages du livre sont très hypocrites, ils veulent être quelqu'un qu'ils ne sont pas en réalité; ils veulent refléter une belle image sur le miroir des autres.

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a wonderful work 28 Sep 2004
By Michelle McKelvey - Published on Amazon.com
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De Beauvoir's novel Les Belle Images is a wonderful work of fiction which simultaneously exposes and works to subvert mainstream social ideologies. It is representative both of her philosophical leanings toward existentialism as well as her commitment to feminism and of a new social role for women. The characters in the novel are passive, having accepted as necessary the roles society has decided for them. They are shallow, interested only in how they are being perceived by others. With the exception of Laurence (the main character), all the characters are complacent, content with living according to the goals and expectations of mainstream bourgeoisie society. Laurence struggles against this lack of morality, and is discontented by the passive role of woman that she has been forced to submit to.
Ah, french existentialism... 2 April 2000
By Alexander Galaitsis - Published on Amazon.com
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I liked this book a lot, and it was fun to see how well the literature related back into the title. The book explored a lot of "beautiful images" which when further inspected are rather empty and unexceptional. I guess in a nutshell this book is about a woman in the upper class of French society who, because of innocent questions from her daughter, has somewhat of a mid-life crisis. She comes to realize that her and her family's wealth has made their lives devoid of pleasure and individuality. Of course, there's other great stuff in the book, but I leave that to you to find out. P.S. This book is in French - make sure you can read it!
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