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Simone de Beauvoir

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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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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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When Things of the Spirit Come First is Simone de Beauvoir's 'first' work of fiction. After a number of false starts, in 1937 she submitted this collection of interlinked stories to a publisher. But it was turned down by both Gallimard and Grasset.