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The lost novel from the author of The Second Sex When Andrée joins
her school, Sylvie is immediately fascinated. Andrée is small for
her age, but walks with the confidence of an adult. 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 as the girls grow into young women, the pressures
of society mount, threatening everything. This novel was never
published in Simone de Beauvoir's lifetime. It tells the story of
the real-life friendship that shaped one of the most important
thinkers and feminists of the twentieth century. 'Slim, elegant,
achingly tragic and unaffectedly lovely in its evocation of the
closeness between girls - and the pressures that sunder them'
Spectator VINTAGE FRENCH CLASSICS - five masterpieces of French
fiction in gorgeous new gift editions. TRANSLATED BY LAUREN ELKIN -
INTRODUCED BY DEBORAH LEVY
Simone de Beauvoir, still a teen, began a diary while a philosophy
student at the Sorbonne. Written in 1926-27-before Beauvoir met
Jean-Paul Sartre-the diaries reveal previously unknown details
about her life and times and offer critical insights into her early
intellectual interests, philosophy, and literary works. Presented
for the first time in translation, this fully annotated first
volume of the Diary includes essays from Barbara Klaw and Margaret
A. Simons that address its philosophical, historical, and literary
significance. It remains an invaluable resource for tracing the
development of Beauvoir's independent thinking and her influence on
philosophy, feminism, and the world.
The lost novel from the author of The Second Sex When Andree joins
her school, Sylvie is immediately fascinated. Andree is small for
her age, but walks with the confidence of an adult. 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 as the girls grow into young women, the pressures
of society mount, threatening everything. This novel was never
published in Simone de Beauvoir's lifetime. It tells the story of
the real-life friendship that shaped one of the most important
thinkers and feminists of the twentieth century. TRANSLATED BY
LAUREN ELKIN - INTRODUCED BY DEBORAH LEVY 'Slim, elegant, achingly
tragic and unaffectedly lovely in its evocation of the closeness
between girls - and the pressures that sunder them' Spectator
'There were lines that absolutely punched me in the gut' Anbara
Salam 'Gorgeously written, intelligent, passionate' Oprah Daily
'Elegantly translated...a rich and rewarding novella' Literary
Review
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Political Writings (Paperback)
Simone De Beauvoir; Edited by Margaret A. Simons, Marybeth Timmermann; Foreword by Sylvie Le Bon de Beauvoir
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R675
Discovery Miles 6 750
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Political Writings offers an abundance of newly translated essays
by Simone de Beauvoir that demonstrate a heretofore unknown side of
her political philosophy. The writings in this volume range from
Beauvoir's surprising 1952 defense of the misogynistic
eighteenth-century pornographer, the Marquis de Sade, to a
co-written 1974 documentary film, transcribed here for the first
time, which draws on Beauvoir's analysis of how socioeconomic
privilege shapes the biological reality of aging. The volume traces
nearly three decades of Beauvoir's leftist political engagement,
from exposes of conditions in fascist Spain and Portugal in 1945
and hard-hitting attacks on right-wing French intellectuals in the
1950s, to the 1962 defense of an Algerian freedom fighter, Djamila
Boupacha, and a 1975 article arguing for what is now called the
"two-state solution" in Israel. Together these texts prefigure
Beauvoir's later feminist activism and provide a new interpretive
context for reading her multi-volume autobiography, while also
shedding new light on French intellectual history during the
turbulent era of decolonization.
Simone de Beauvoir, still a teen, began a diary while a philosophy
student at the Sorbonne. Written in 1926-27-before Beauvoir met
Jean-Paul Sartre-the diaries reveal previously unknown details
about her life and times and offer critical insights into her early
intellectual interests, philosophy, and literary works. Presented
for the first time in translation, this fully annotated first
volume of the Diary includes essays from Barbara Klaw and Margaret
A. Simons that address its philosophical, historical, and literary
significance. It remains an invaluable resource for tracing the
development of Beauvoir's independent thinking and her influence on
philosophy, feminism, and the world.
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Feminist Writings (Paperback)
Simone De Beauvoir; Edited by Margaret A. Simons, Marybeth Timmermann; Foreword by Sylvie Le Bon de Beauvoir
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R653
Discovery Miles 6 530
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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The philosopher's writings on, and engagement with, twentieth
century feminism By turns surprising and revelatory, this sixth
volume in the Beauvoir Series presents newly discovered writings
and lectures while providing new translations and contexts for
Simone de Beauvoir's more familiar writings. Spanning Beauvoir's
career from the 1940s through 1986, the pieces explain the
paradoxes in her political and feminist stances, including her
famous 1972 announcement of a "conversion to feminism" after
decades of activism on behalf of women.Feminist Writings documents
and contextualizes Beauvoir's thinking, writing, public statements,
and activities in the services of causes like French divorce law
reform and the rights of women in the Iranian Revolution. In
addition, the volume provides new insights into Beauvoir's complex
thinking and illuminates her historic role in linking the movements
for sexual freedom, sexual equality, homosexual rights, and women's
rights in France.
"The Useless Mouths" and Other Literary Writings brings to
English-language readers literary writings--several previously
unknown--by Simone de Beauvoir. Culled from sources including
various American university collections, the works span decades of
Beauvoir's career. Ranging from dramatic works and literary theory
to radio broadcasts, they collectively reveal fresh insights into
Beauvoir's writing process, personal life, and the honing of her
philosophy. The volume begins with a new translation of the 1945
play The Useless Mouths, written in Paris during the Nazi
occupation. Other pieces were discovered after Beauvoir's death in
1986, such as the 1965 short novel "Misunderstanding in Moscow,"
involving an elderly French couple who confront their fears of
aging. Two additional previously unknown texts include the
fragmentary "Notes for a Novel," which contains the seed of what
she later would call "the problem of the Other," and a lecture on
postwar French theater titled Existentialist Theater. The
collection notably includes the eagerly awaited translation of
Beauvoir's contribution to a 1965 debate among Jean-Paul Sartre and
other French writers and intellectuals, "What Can Literature Do?"
Prefaces to well-known works such as Bluebeard and Other Fairy
Tales,La Batarde, and James Joyce in Paris: His Final Years are
also available in English for the first time, alongside essays and
other short articles. A landmark contribution to Beauvoir studies
and French literary studies, the volume includes informative and
engaging introductory essays by prominent and rising scholars.
Contributors are Meryl Altman, Elizabeth Fallaize, Alison S. Fell,
Sarah Gendron, Dennis A. Gilbert, Laura Hengehold, Eleanore
Holveck, Terry Keefe, J. Debbie Mann, Frederick M. Morrison,
Catherine Naji, Justine Sarrot, Liz Stanley, Ursula Tidd, and
Veronique Zaytzeff.
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Philosophical Writings (Paperback)
Simone De Beauvoir, Margaret A. Simons; As told to Marybeth Timmermann, Mary Beth Mader; Foreword by Sylvie Le Bon de Beauvoir
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R658
Discovery Miles 6 580
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Despite growing interest in her philosophy, Simone de Beauvoir
remains widely misunderstood. She is typically portrayed as a mere
intellectual follower of her companion, Jean-Paul Sartre. In
Philosophical Writings, Beauvoir herself shows that nothing could
be further from the truth. Beauvoir's philosophical work suffers
from a lack of English-language translation or, worse,
mistranslation into heavily condensed popular versions.
Philosophical Writings provides an unprecedented collection of
complete, scholarly editions of philosophical texts that cover the
first twenty-three years of Beauvoir's career, including a number
of recently discovered works. Ranging from metaphysical literature
to existentialist ethics, Philosophical Writings brings together
diverse elements of Beauvoir's work while highlighting continuities
in the development of her thought. Each of the translations
features detailed notes and a scholarly introduction explaining its
larger significance. Revelatory and long overdue, Philosophical
Writings adds to the ongoing resurgence of interest in Beauvoir's
thought and to her growing influence on today's philosophical
curriculum.
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Wartime Diary (Paperback)
Simone De Beauvoir; Translated by Anne Deing Cordero; Edited by Margaret A. Simons, Sylvie Le Bon de Beauvoir; Introduction by Anne Deing Cordero; Notes by …
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R669
Discovery Miles 6 690
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Ships in 9 - 15 working days
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Provocative insights into Beauvoir's philosophical and personal
development during wartime Written from September 1939 to January
1941, Simone de Beauvoir's Wartime Diary gives English readers
unabridged access to a scandalous text that threatened to overturn
traditional views of Beauvoir's life and work. Beauvoir's
clandestine affair with Jacques Bost and sexual relationships with
various young women challenge the conventional picture of Beauvoir
as the devoted companion of Jean-Paul Sartre. At the same time, her
account of completing her novel She Came to Stay at a time when
Sartre had just begun Being and Nothingness questions the
traditional view of Beauvoir's novel as merely illustrating
Sartre's philosophy. Wartime Diary also traces Beauvoir's
philosophical transformation as she broke from the prewar solipsism
of She Came to Stay in favor of the postwar political engagement of
The Second Sex. Beauvoir's emerging existentialist ethics reflect
the dramatic collective experiences of refugees fleeing German
invasion and life under Nazi occupation. The evolution of her
thought also reveals the courageous reaffirmation of her
individuality in constructing a humanist ethics of freedom and
solidarity. This edition also features previously unpublished
material, including her musings about consciousness and order,
recommended reading lists, and notes on labor unions. In providing
new insights into Beauvoir's philosophical development, the Wartime
Diary promises to rewrite a crucial chapter of Western philosophy
and intellectual history.
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Diary of a Philosophy Student - Volume 3, 1926-30
Simone De Beauvoir; Translated by Barbara Klaw; Edited by Barbara Klaw, Sylvie Le Bon de Beauvoir, Margaret A. Simons; As told to …
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R1,510
R1,332
Discovery Miles 13 320
Save R178 (12%)
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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Written between the age of eighteen and twenty-one, the entries in
the third volume of Diary of a Philosophy Student take readers into
Simone de Beauvoir’s thoughts while illuminating the people and
ideas swirling around her. The pages offer rare insights into
Beauvoir’s intellectual development; her early experiences with
love, desire, and freedom; and relationships with friends like
Élisabeth “Zaza” Lacoin, and Maurice Merleau-Ponty. It also
presents Beauvoir’s shocking account of Jean-Paul Sartre’s
sexual assault of her during their first sexual encounter--a
revelation certain to transform views of her life and philosophy.
In addition, the editors include a wealth of important
supplementary material. Barbara Klaw provides a detailed
consideration of the Diary’s role in the development of
Beauvoir’s writing style by exploring her use of metanarrative
and other literary techniques, part of a process of literary
creation that saw Beauvoir use the notebooks to cultivate her
talent. Margaret A. Simons’s essay places the assault by Sartre
within an appraisal of Beauvoir’s complicated legacy for #MeToo
while suggesting readers engage with the diary through the lens of
trauma.
This volume aims at nothing less than the transformation of Simone
de Beauvoir's place in the philosophical canon. Despite growing
interest her philosophy, Beauvoir remains widely misunderstood and
is typically portrayed as a mere philosophical follower of her
companion, Jean-Paul Sartre. In Philosophical Writings, Beauvoir
herself shows that nothing could be further from the truth. One
factor contributing to misunderstanding has been the lack of
English translations of much of Beauvoir's philosophical work, or
worse--its mistranslation in heavily condensed, popular editions.
Philosophical Writings addresses this source of misunderstanding by
providing complete, scholarly editions of Beauvoir's philosophical
texts covering the first twenty-three years of her work, including
some only recently discovered. Ranging from metaphysical literature
to essays on existentialist ethics, Philosophical Writings brings
together diverse elements of Beauvoir's work while highlighting
continuities in the development of her thought. Each of the
translations features detailed notes and a scholarly introduction
explaining its larger significance. Philosophical Writings is a
major contribution to the r
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Feminist Writings (Hardcover)
Simone De Beauvoir; Edited by Margaret A. Simons, Marybeth Timmermann; Foreword by Sylvie Le Bon de Beauvoir
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R1,120
Discovery Miles 11 200
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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The philosopher's writings on, and engagement with, twentieth
century feminism By turns surprising and revelatory, this sixth
volume in the Beauvoir Series presents newly discovered writings
and lectures while providing new translations and contexts for
Simone de Beauvoir's more familiar writings. Spanning Beauvoir's
career from the 1940s through 1986, the pieces explain the
paradoxes in her political and feminist stances, including her
famous 1972 announcement of a "conversion to feminism" after
decades of activism on behalf of women.Feminist Writings documents
and contextualizes Beauvoir's thinking, writing, public statements,
and activities in the services of causes like French divorce law
reform and the rights of women in the Iranian Revolution. In
addition, the volume provides new insights into Beauvoir's complex
thinking and illuminates her historic role in linking the movements
for sexual freedom, sexual equality, homosexual rights, and women's
rights in France.
Simone de Beauvoir, still a teen, began a diary while a philosophy
student at the Sorbonne. Written in 1926-27—before Beauvoir met
Jean-Paul Sartre—the diaries reveal previously unknown details
about her life and times and offer critical insights into her early
intellectual interests, philosophy, and literary works. Presented
for the first time in translation, this fully annotated first
volume of the Diary includes essays from Barbara Klaw and Margaret
A. Simons that address its philosophical, historical, and literary
significance. It remains an invaluable resource for tracing the
development of Beauvoir’s independent thinking and her influence
on philosophy, feminism, and the world.
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Wartime Diary (Hardcover, Unclassified)
Simone De Beauvoir; Translated by Anne Deing Cordero; Edited by Margaret A. Simons, Sylvie Le Bon de Beauvoir; Introduction by Anne Deing Cordero; Notes by …
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R1,093
Discovery Miles 10 930
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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Provocative insights into Beauvoir's philosophical and personal
development during wartime Written from September 1939 to January
1941, Simone de Beauvoir's Wartime Diary gives English readers
unabridged access to a scandalous text that threatened to overturn
traditional views of Beauvoir's life and work. Beauvoir's
clandestine affair with Jacques Bost and sexual relationships with
various young women challenge the conventional picture of Beauvoir
as the devoted companion of Jean-Paul Sartre. At the same time, her
account of completing her novel She Came to Stay at a time when
Sartre had just begun Being and Nothingness questions the
traditional view of Beauvoir's novel as merely illustrating
Sartre's philosophy. Wartime Diary also traces Beauvoir's
philosophical transformation as she broke from the prewar solipsism
of She Came to Stay in favor of the postwar political engagement of
The Second Sex. Beauvoir's emerging existentialist ethics reflect
the dramatic collective experiences of refugees fleeing German
invasion and life under Nazi occupation. The evolution of her
thought also reveals the courageous reaffirmation of her
individuality in constructing a humanist ethics of freedom and
solidarity. This edition also features previously unpublished
material, including her musings about consciousness and order,
recommended reading lists, and notes on labor unions. In providing
new insights into Beauvoir's philosophical development, the Wartime
Diary promises to rewrite a crucial chapter of Western philosophy
and intellectual history.
Revelatory insights into the early life and thought of the
preeminent French feminist philosopher
Dating from her years as a philosophy student at the Sorbonne,
this is the 1926-27 diary of the teenager who would become the
famous French philosopher, author, and feminist, Simone de
Beauvoir. Written years before her first meeting with Jean-Paul
Sartre, these diaries reveal previously unknown details about her
life and offer critical insights into her early philosophy and
literary works. Presented here for the first time in translation
and fully annotated, the diary is completed by essays from Barbara
Klaw and Margaret A. Simons that address its philosophical,
historical and literary significance. The volume represents an
invaluable resource for tracing the development of Beauvoir's
independent thinking and influence on the world.
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Political Writings (Hardcover, New)
Simone De Beauvoir; Edited by Margaret A. Simons, Marybeth Timmermann; Foreword by Sylvie Le Bon de Beauvoir
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R1,104
Discovery Miles 11 040
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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Political Writings offers an abundance of newly translated essays
by Simone de Beauvoir that demonstrate a heretofore unknown side of
her political philosophy. The writings in this volume range from
Beauvoir's surprising 1952 defense of the misogynistic
eighteenth-century pornographer, the Marquis de Sade, to a
co-written 1974 documentary film, transcribed here for the first
time, which draws on Beauvoir's analysis of how socioeconomic
privilege shapes the biological reality of aging. The volume traces
nearly three decades of Beauvoir's leftist political engagement,
from exposes of conditions in fascist Spain and Portugal in 1945
and hard-hitting attacks on right-wing French intellectuals in the
1950s, to the 1962 defense of an Algerian freedom fighter, Djamila
Boupacha, and a 1975 article arguing for what is now called the
"two-state solution" in Israel. Together these texts prefigure
Beauvoir's later feminist activism and provide a new interpretive
context for reading her multi-volume autobiography, while also
shedding new light on French intellectual history during the
turbulent era of decolonization.
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