Mémoires d'une jeune fille rangée

By Simone de Beauvoir

Subjects: Women authors, Feminists, Biography, Ecrivains français. 20e siècle. Biographies, Intellectual life, Biographies, Authors, biography, Écrivaines françaises, Childhood and youth, Philosophers, france, Interpersonal relations, Écrivains français, Ecrivains franais, Ensaio Frances, Beauvoir, simone de, 1908-1986, French Authors

Description: 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. She 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.