Description
"A book that will leave no one indifferent, and no one affected in quite the same way." --New York Times
A superb autobiography by one of the great literary figures of the twentieth century
Simone de Beauvoir's Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter offers an intimate picture of growing up in a bourgeois French family, rebelling as an adolescent against the conventional expectations of her class, and striking out on her own with an intellectual and existential ambition exceedingly rare in a young woman in the 1920s.
Beauvoir vividly evokes her friendships, love interests, mentors, and the early days of the most important relationship of her life, with fellow student Jean-Paul Sartre, against the backdrop of a turbulent political time.
Author: Simone De Beauvoir
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: 08/02/2005
Pages: 384
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 8.10h x 5.30w x 1.00d
ISBN13: 9780060825195
ISBN10: 0060825197
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Philosophers
- Biography & Autobiography | Literary Figures
- Biography & Autobiography | Historical