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She Came to Stay (Paperback, New ed)
Series: Harper Perennial Modern Classics
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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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Imprint: |
HarperPerennial
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Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Series: |
Harper Perennial Modern Classics |
Release date: |
2006 |
First published: |
2006 |
Authors: |
Simone De Beauvoir
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Dimensions: |
200 x 130 x 27mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback
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Pages: |
409 |
Edition: |
New ed |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-00-720464-9 |
Languages: |
English
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Subtitles: |
French
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Categories: |
Books >
Fiction >
General & literary fiction >
Modern fiction
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LSN: |
0-00-720464-7 |
Barcode: |
9780007204649 |
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