Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter

Simone de Beauvoir (1908-86) French philosopher novelist and essayist the lifelong companion of Jean-Paul Sartre. Beauvoir's first book L'Invitée was published in 1943. In 1945 Beauvoir published Le Sang des autres a novel dealing with the question of political involvement. Beauvoir's breakthrough work was semiautobiographical Les Mandarins (1954) which won the Prix Concourt. Roman Catholic authorities banned it and Beauvoir's feminist classic The Second Sex (1949) in which Beauvoir argued that...See More