시몬 드 보부아르

제2의 성은 프랑스 실존주의 철학자 시몬 드 보부아르의 작품으로, 역사 속에서 여성을 다루었는가에 대한 고찰이며, 페미니즘에서 가장 중요한 저서 중의 하나로 여겨진다. 저자는 역사속에서 여성은 정상적인 성을 갖는 남성에 대한 반대급부인 비주류의 성으로 정의된다. 보부아르는 자기 자신에 대한 글을 쓰려다가 이 글을 쓰게 되었다. 그는 자신이 여자라는 것에 대해 썼지만, 여자가 무엇인가를 규정할 필요를 느꼈기 때문이었으며, 그것이 이 책이 …

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 …

The Mandarins is a 1954 roman à clef by Simone de Beauvoir. Beauvoir was awarded the Prix Goncourt prize in 1954 for The Mandarins. It was first published in English in 1956. The book follows the personal lives of a close-knit group of French intellectuals from the end of World War II to the mid fifties. The title …

The woman destroyed is a 1967 book written by Simone de Beauvoir.

She Came to Stay is a novel written by French author Simone de Beauvoir first published in 1943. The novel is a fictional account of her and Jean-Paul Sartre's relationship with Olga Kosakiewicz and Wanda Kosakiewicz.

A very easy death is a 1964 book written by Simone de Beauvoir.

All Men are Mortal is a 1946 novel by Simone de Beauvoir. It tells the story of Raimon Fosca, a man cursed to live forever. The first American edition of this work was published by The World Publishing Company. Cleveland and New York, 1955. It was adapted into a 1995 film.

The Blood of Others is a novel by the French existentialist Simone de Beauvoir first published in 1945 and depicting the lives of several characters in Paris leading up to and during the Second World War. The novel explores themes of freedom and responsibility.

The Ethics of Ambiguity is Simone de Beauvoir's second major non-fiction work. It was prompted by a lecture she gave in 1945, after which she claimed that it was impossible to base an ethical system on her partner Jean-Paul Sartre's major philosophical work Being and Nothingness. The following year, over a six-month …

The orime of life is a 1960 book written by Simone de Beauvoir.