Name: hard times: force of circumstance, volume ii: 1952-1962 (the autobiography of simone de beauvoir)
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Author: Simone de Beauvoir
ISBN: 9781569249550

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hard times: force of circumstance, volume ii: 1952-1962 (the autobiography of simone de beauvoir)

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Physical Book

Author

Publisher

Year

1994

Language

English

Pages

384

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

22.9 x 15.3 x 2.7 cm

Weight

0.54 kg.

ISBN

1569249555

ISBN13

9781569249550

Synopsis "hard times: force of circumstance, volume ii: 1952-1962 (the autobiography of simone de beauvoir)"

This volume of Simone de Beauvoir's legendary autobiography presents Beauvoir at the height of her international fame and portrays her inner struggle with aging. Beauvoir recounts her difficult long-distance romance with novelist Nelson Algren and her involvement with Claude Lanzmann (the future director of Shoah). She also vividly describes her travels with Sartre to Brazil and Cuba, reveals her private sense of despair in reaction to French atrocities in Algeria, and confronts her own deepening depression. Simone de Beauvoir's outstanding achievement is to have left us an admirable record of her unceasing battle to become an independent woman and writer.Introduction by Toril Moi

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Simone de Beauvoir (Paris, January 9, 1908 – April 14, 1986) was one of the most influential philosophers, writers, and essayists of the 20th century, a key figure in existentialism and an international reference in feminism. She studied philosophy at the Sorbonne, where she met Jean-Paul Sartre, with whom she maintained a famous intellectual and personal relationship that would mark her life and thought. She published fundamental works such as The Second Sex (1949), considered a pillar of modern feminism, in which she analyzes the social construction of women from an existentialist perspective, and novels like She Came to Stay (1943) and The Mandarins (1954), the latter awarded the prestigious Goncourt Prize.

Throughout her career, De Beauvoir combined philosophical reflection, social analysis, and autobiography in more than twenty books, among which stand out Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter, The Prime of Life, The Woman Destroyed, and Adieux: A Farewell to Sartre. She was internationally recognized with distinctions such as the Jerusalem Prize (1975) and the Austrian State Prize for European Literature (1978), and left an essential legacy in the fight for gender equality and human rights. Her thought and activism continue to inspire generations of readers, intellectuals, and freedom advocates.

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