- Mass Market Paperback: 192 pages
- Publisher: Penguin Books (1 Feb 1988)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0140087370
- ISBN-13: 978-0140087376
- Product Dimensions: 19.3 x 12.4 x 1.3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,608,347 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Traces the life of the prominent French feminist and existentialist, describe the links between her work and her life, and looks at her relationship with Sartre.
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On 19 April 1986, some 5000 mourners, young and old, crowded behind Simone de Beauvoir's funeral cortège and followed it through the streets of Paris to the Montparnasse Cemetery where her ashes found their place next to those of Jean-Paul Sartre, her partner in life and death, though never in marriage. Read the first page
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On 19 April 1986, some 5000 mourners, young and old, crowded behind Simone de Beauvoir's funeral cortège and followed it through the streets of Paris to the Montparnasse Cemetery where her ashes found their place next to those of Jean-Paul Sartre, her partner in life and death, though never in marriage. Read the first page
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biography focusing on the writings and the feminism of this important French literary figure
22 Feb 2006
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This author with wide interests and published fiction and nonfiction concentrates on Simon de Beauvoir's writings for a comprehension of the purposes she defined for herself and the commitments she made. Or as Appighanesi puts it in her own words, "I have tried to render the flavour of Simone de Beauvois's singular life, her judiciousness, the vitality of her intellect, as well as highlight certain aspects of her most important books." The author gives special attention to de Beauvoir's influence through her books and her actions as a latter-day feminist; while her social ideas and activities, along with those of her lover Sartre, and her literary accomplishments are also given adequate and informative attention. Appignanesi writes with the stylistic innovation of including relatively lengthy passages from de Beauvois's writings within paragraphs; rather than setting off the quotes in separate blocks of text as is the common style. This has the effect of drawing writer and subject closer, allowing the writer to be particularly revealing about her subject. A little different from a conventional biography, this work presents de Beauvoir as a feeling, thinking, activist individual while also being an introspective one; and it's a good supplement to other works on this leading French philosophical and literary figure of the post-War decades who continues to offer insights and guidance on social, gender, and political questions.
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