Simone de Beauvoir (Life & Times)

Simone de Beauvoir (Life & Times)

by Lisa Appignanesi (Author)

Synopsis

Simone de Beauvoir (1908-1986) always stood in the shadow of her lover and teacher, Jean-Paul Sartre, despite the fact that she was a brilliant writer and philosopher in her own right. Her monumental study The Second Sex made her a cult figure of the Feminist movement.

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Format: Illustrated
Pages: 182
Edition: New edition
Publisher: Haus Publishing
Published: 15 Apr 2005

ISBN 10: 1904950094
ISBN 13: 9781904950097

Media Reviews
Different from a conventional biography, this work presents de Beauvoir as a feeling, thinking, activist individual while also being an introspective one;
Author Bio
Lisa Appignanesi is a novelist, writer and broadcaster. She has written a portrait of Simone de Beauvoir and Cabaret (2004, Yale University Press) and a book on James, Proust and Musil. She is the co-author of Freud's Women with John Forrester (Penguin).