Mémoires d'une jeune fille rangée

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.

Year

2005

Language

English

Publisher

Harper Perennial Modern Classics

Editions

27

Reader rating

2.8 / 5 (6)

Pages

384

ISBN

9780060825195

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