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Simone-Ernestine-Lucie-Marie Bertrand de Beauvoir, often shortened to Simone de Beauvoir (January 9, 1908 – April 14, 1986), was a French existentialist philosopher, public intellectual, and social theorist. She wrote novels, essays, biographies, an autobiography in several volumes, and monographs on philosophy, politics, and social issues. She is now best known for her metaphysical novels, including She Came to Stay and The Mandarins, and for her 1949 treatise The Second Sex, a detailed analysis of women's oppression and a foundational tract of contemporary feminism. She is also noted for her lifelong polyamorous relationship with Jean-Paul Sartre.
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(2008)
Wartime Diary
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Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter
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A Transatlantic Love Affair
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Letters to Sartre
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Force of Circumstance, 1952 - 1962
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Simone de Beauvoir was a brilliant writer and philosopher.She wrote essays,monographs on philosophy,novels,biografies and an autobiography.
She decide at age 15 to become a writer and she studied at the University of Paris.
She is known for her greatest novels such as She Came to Stay and The Mandarins.
The Second Sex was published in 1949 and it is a important work in feminist literature.
Works by Simone de Beauvoir:
She Came to Stay (1943)
Pyrrhus et Cinéas (1944)
The Blood of Others (1945)
Who Shall Die? (1945)
All Men are Mortal (1946)
The Ethics of Ambiguity (1947)
The Second Sex (1949)
America Day by Day (1954)
The Mandarins (1954)
Must We Burn Sade? (1955)
The Long March (1957)
Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter (1958)
The Prime of Life (1960)
Force of Circumstance (1963)
A Very Easy Death (1964)
Les Belles Images (1966)
The Woman Destroyed (1967)
The Coming of Age (1970)
All Said and Done (1972)
When Things of the Spirit Come First (1979)
Adieux: A Farewell to Sartre (1981)
Letters to Sartre (1990)
A Transatlantic Love Affair: Letters to Nelson Algren (1998)
She decide at age 15 to become a writer and she studied at the University of Paris.
She is known for her greatest novels such as She Came to Stay and The Mandarins.
The Second Sex was published in 1949 and it is a important work in feminist literature.
Works by Simone de Beauvoir:
She Came to Stay (1943)
Pyrrhus et Cinéas (1944)
The Blood of Others (1945)
Who Shall Die? (1945)
All Men are Mortal (1946)
The Ethics of Ambiguity (1947)
The Second Sex (1949)
America Day by Day (1954)
The Mandarins (1954)
Must We Burn Sade? (1955)
The Long March (1957)
Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter (1958)
The Prime of Life (1960)
Force of Circumstance (1963)
A Very Easy Death (1964)
Les Belles Images (1966)
The Woman Destroyed (1967)
The Coming of Age (1970)
All Said and Done (1972)
When Things of the Spirit Come First (1979)
Adieux: A Farewell to Sartre (1981)
Letters to Sartre (1990)
A Transatlantic Love Affair: Letters to Nelson Algren (1998)
