pickI have re read this book as I have developed an interest in Simone recently. The book ends with her emancipation and the death of her best friend. Such different times the pressure of bourgeois values and Catholicism on women and girls.
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pickI have re read this book as I have developed an interest in Simone recently. The book ends with her emancipation and the death of her best friend. Such different times the pressure of bourgeois values and Catholicism on women and girls.
pickIt is quite challenging to read such a memoir; it requires time and patience and a certain state of mind, an openness to absorb the unfolding of a life in a different era, down to the tiniest detail.
“Alone: for the first time I understood the terrible significance of that word. Alone without a witness, without anyone to speak to, without refuge. The breath in my body, the blood in my veins, all this hurly-burly in my head existed for nobody.”
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I don't know about you but an afternoon in this Paris bookshop sounds like #paradise to me.
I‘m so thrilled to read that a previously unpublished Simone de Beauvoir novel titled “The Inseparables” will be printed in French later this year and published in English in North America by fall 2021. It‘s based on an influential friendship she had as a child. Anyone else excited for what‘s sure to be a literary event? https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/28/books/coming-soon-new-fiction-from-simone-de-...
pickWhat a delightful book, simultaneously entertaining and enlightening, and offering an enthralling account if Deirdre Blair‘s struggles to write her groundbreaking biographies of both Samuel Beckett and Simone de Beauvoir. See my Goodreads review at: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3228147634. #biography #deirdrebair #literature #samuelbeckett #simonedebeauvoir #paris #1970s #nonfiction #history #literarybiography #drama #philosophy
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