Le Deuxième Sexe

Le Deuxième Sexe
Title Le Deuxième Sexe PDF eBook
Author Simone de Beauvoir
Publisher Vintage
Pages 791
Release 1989
Genre Social Science
ISBN 0679724516

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The classic manifesto of the liberated woman, this book explores every facet of a woman's life.

The Woman Destroyed

The Woman Destroyed
Title The Woman Destroyed PDF eBook
Author Simone De Beauvoir
Publisher Pantheon
Pages 200
Release 2013-01-09
Genre Fiction
ISBN 0307832171

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One of the most influential thinkers of her generation draws us into the lives of three women, all past their first youth, all facing unexpected crises in these three “immensely intelligent stories about the decay of passion” (The Sunday Herald Times). Suffused with de Beauvoir’s remarkable insights into women, The Woman Destroyed gives us a legendary writer at her best. Includes "The Age of Discretion," "The Monologue," and "The Woman Destroyed." "Witty, immensely adroit...These three women are believable individuals presented with a wry mixture of sympathy and exasperation." —The Atlantic

Simone de Beauvoir

Simone de Beauvoir
Title Simone de Beauvoir PDF eBook
Author Deirdre Bair
Publisher Simon and Schuster
Pages 724
Release 1991-08-15
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 0671741802

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This definitive biography is based on five years of interviews with de Beauvoir, and is written with her full cooperation. Bair penetrates the mystique of this brilliant and often paradoxical woman, who has been called one of the great minds of the 20th century, and surely, one of the most famously unconventional figures of her generation. "As a reference work . . . Simone de Beauvoir can be considered definitive".--The Atlantic. 16-page photographic insert.

Simone de Beauvoir, Philosophy, & Feminism

Simone de Beauvoir, Philosophy, & Feminism
Title Simone de Beauvoir, Philosophy, & Feminism PDF eBook
Author Nancy Bauer
Publisher Columbia University Press
Pages 322
Release 2001
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 9780231116657

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In the introduction to The Second Sex, Simone de Beauvoir notes that "a man never begins by establishing himself as an individual of a certain sex: his being a man poses no problem." Nancy Bauer begins her book by asking: "Then what kind of a problem does being a woman pose?" Bauer's aim is to show that in answering this question The Second Sex dramatizes the extent to which being a woman poses a philosophical problem. In exploring what it might mean to philosophize as a woman, Beauvoir produced a book that not only sparked the contemporary feminist movement but also, Bauer argues, made an important but still profoundly undervalued contribution to the philosophical tradition.

The Independent Woman

The Independent Woman
Title The Independent Woman PDF eBook
Author Simone De Beauvoir
Publisher Vintage
Pages 162
Release 2018-11-06
Genre Social Science
ISBN 0525563415

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“Like man, woman is a human being.” When The Second Sex was first published in Paris in 1949—groundbreaking, risqué, brilliantly written and strikingly modern—it provoked both outrage and inspiration. The Independent Woman contains three key chapters of Beauvoir’s masterwork, which illuminate the feminine condition and identify practical social reforms for gender equality. It captures the essence of the spirited manifesto that switched on light bulbs in the heads of a generation of women and continues to exert profound influence on feminists today.

Wartime Diary

Wartime Diary
Title Wartime Diary PDF eBook
Author Simone de Beauvoir
Publisher University of Illinois Press
Pages 370
Release 2009
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 0252033779

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Written from September 1939 to January 1941, Simone de Beauvoir’s Wartime Diary gives English readers unabridged access to one of the scandalous texts that threaten to overturn traditional views of Beauvoir’s life and work. Beauvoir’s account of her clandestine affair with Jacques Bost and sexual relationships with various young women challenges the conventional picture of Beauvoir as the devoted companion of Jean-Paul Sartre, just as her account of completing her novel She Came to Stay at a time when Sartre’s philosophy in Being and Nothingness was barely begun calls into question the traditional view of Beauvoir’s novel as merely illustrating Sartre’s philosophy. Most important, the Wartime Diary provides an exciting account of Beauvoir’s philosophical transformation from the prewar solipsism of She Came to Stay to the postwar political engagement of The Second Sex. 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.

The Art of Fiction

The Art of Fiction
Title The Art of Fiction PDF eBook
Author David Lodge
Publisher Random House
Pages 255
Release 2012-04-30
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 1448137799

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In this entertaining and enlightening collection David Lodge considers the art of fiction under a wide range of headings, drawing on writers as diverse as Henry James, Martin Amis, Jane Austen and James Joyce. Looking at ideas such as the Intrusive Author, Suspense, the Epistolary Novel, Magic Realism and Symbolism, and illustrating each topic with a passage taken from a classic or modern novel, David Lodge makes the richness and variety of British and American fiction accessible to the general reader. He provides essential reading for students, aspiring writers and anyone who wants to understand how fiction works.