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Simone de Beauvoir

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In The Second Sex, Simone de Beauvoir posed questions many men, and women, had yet to ponder when the book was released in 1953. "One wonders if women still exist, if they will always exist, whether or not it is desirable that they should ...," she says in this comprehensive treatise on women. She weaves together …

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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 …

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"Mandariinid" on Simone de Beauvoiri romaan, mis ilmus 1954. aastal. Tegemist on Beauvoiri ühe tähelepanuväärseima teosega, 1954. aastal võitis raamat Goncourti auhinna. Teose peateemaks on Prantsuse vasakpoolsete poliitikute roll ühiskonnas Teise maailmasõja lõpupäevil. Raamatus räägitakse muuhulgas ühe naise …

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

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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.

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

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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.

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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.

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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 …

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