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Simone Lucie Ernestine Marie Bertrand de Beauvoir[ a ] (UK: / dəˈboʊvwɑːr /, US: / dəboʊˈvwɑːr /; [ 2 ][ 3 ]French: [simɔn də bovwaʁ] ⓘ; 9 January 1908 – 14 April 1986) was a French existentialist philosopher, writer, social theorist, and feminist activist.
t. e. The Second Sex (French: Le Deuxième Sexe) is a 1949 book by the French existentialist philosopher Simone de Beauvoir, in which the author discusses the treatment of women in the present society as well as throughout all of history. Beauvoir researched and wrote the book in about 14 months between 1946 and 1949. [3]
The Mandarins. The Mandarins (French: Les Mandarins) is a 1954 roman à clef by Simone de Beauvoir, for which she won the Prix Goncourt, awarded to the best and most imaginative prose work of the year, in 1954. The Mandarins was first published in English in 1956 (in a translation by Leonard M. Friedman). The book follows the personal lives of ...
The Coming of Age (book) The Coming of Age. (book) First US edition (publ. G. P. Putnam's Sons) The Coming of Age (La Vieillesse) is a 1970 book by the French existentialist philosopher Simone de Beauvoir, in which the author seeks greater understanding of the perception of elders. [1]
published by Philosophical Library in 1948. The Ethics of Ambiguity (French: Pour une morale de l'ambiguïté) is Simone de Beauvoir 's second major non-fiction work. It was prompted by a lecture she gave in 1945, where she claimed that it was impossible to base an ethical system on her partner Jean-Paul Sartre 's major philosophical work Being ...
When Things of the Spirit Come First is Simone de Beauvoir's first work of fiction. [1] It consists of five short stories woven together in a way that is structurally similar to a more traditional novel. Beauvoir submitted this collection of interlinked stories to a publisher in 1937. But it was turned down by both Gallimard and Grasset. [2]