French Literary Biography, Women's Biography, Labor Leaders, Activists, & Social Reformers, Women's Biography, Literary Figures - Women's Biography
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A biography of French writer & philosopher Simone de Beauvoir, one of the most controversial yet most deeply admired figures of this century. As author of The Second Sex, she inaugurated the modern feminist movement; as a philosopher, essayist, & novelist she was in the vanguard of French intellectual life for nearly 40 years. In this acclaimed biography, based in part on 5 years of interviews with de Beauvoir, Bair penetrates the mystique of this brilliant, often paradoxical, woman. Includes 41 photographs. A definitive work. Monumental. Fascinating . . a major accomplishment & splendidly readable. A fine, fine book.Synopsis
A biography of French writer & philosopher Simone de Beauvoir, one of the most controversial yet most deeply admired figures of this century. As author of The Second Sex, she inaugurated the modern feminist movement; as a philosopher, essayist, & novelist she was in the vanguard of French intellectual life for nearly 40 years. In this acclaimed biography, based in part on 5 years of interviews with de Beauvoir, Bair penetrates the mystique of this brilliant, often paradoxical, woman. Includes 41 photographs. "A definitive work." "Monumental." "Fascinating . . a major accomplishment & splendidly readable." "A fine, fine book."Editorials
New York Times Books of the Century
Her demystifying biography of the serious, frumpy mother of feminism, the Mother Courage of existentialism and left-wing politics in France, the epitome of bourgeois rebelliousness, leaves de Beauvoir better understood than her own works do.New York Times Books of the Century
Her demystifying biography of the serious, frumpy mother of feminism, the Mother Courage of existentialism and left-wing politics in France, the epitome of bourgeois rebelliousness, leaves de Beauvoir better understood than her own works do.Book Details
Published
February 28, 1999
Publisher
DIANE Publishing Company
Pages
718
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9780788160363