When these letters were first published in 1990, they caused a storm of controversy. Here, Simone de Beauvoir tells Satre everything, tracing the complications of their triangular love life.
* This extraordinary novel, considered by many to be one of the finest examples of Simone de Beauvoir's imaginative writing, tells the story of a man doomed to immortality.
In 1983 de Beauvoir published Sartre's letters, maintaining that her own to him had been lost. Tracing the emotional and triangular complications of her life with Sartre, the letters reveal her not only as manipulative and dependent but Simonealso as vulnerable, passionate, jealous and committed.
Vintage Feminism: classic feminist texts in short formWITH AN INTRODUCTION BY NATALIE HAYNESWhen this book was first published in 1949 it was to outrage and scandal. Never before had the case for female liberty been so forcefully and successfully argued. De Beauvoir's belief that 'One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman' switched on light bulbs in the heads of a generation of women and began a fight for greater equality and economic indep...
A still unsurpassed catalogue of sexual perversions and the first systematic exploration of the psychopathology of sex, it was written during Sade's lengthy imprisonment for sexual deviancy and blasphemy and then lost after the storming of the Bastille during the French Revolution in 1789.
In three "immensely intelligent stories about the decay of passion" (The Sunday Herald Times [London]), Simone de Beauvoir draws us into the lives of three women, all past their first youth, all facing unexpected crises.
Enthralling as faction, suffused with de Beauvoir's remarkable insights into women, The Woman Destroyed gives us a legendary writer at her best.
He becomes thoroughly attached to her and confides a terrifying truth: he is immortal. But having been resuscitated into enjoying life again, he soon starts breaking free from her grasp and all notions of mortality.
Simone de Beauvoirin Kadin Le Deuxime Sexe Ikinci Cins adli bu dev eseri Fransada ilk yayimlandigi zaman öylesine büyük bir ilgi gödü ki, iki yil icinde 97 kez basilarak ne rekor kirdi. Kipat büyük yankilar yapti. Bugüne kadar sürüp gelen kadin anlayisi bu eserle birlikte birden altüst oldu. Yazarlar, aydinlar, okurlar birbirlerine girdiler. Tartismalar uzayip gitti. Böylece yazarin ve kitabin ünü de dünyanin her tarafina yayildi. Amerikada ay...
Kahramanlari arasinda Arthur Koestleri, Jean-Paul Sartrei, Albert Camusyü ve yazarin kendisini görür gibi oldugumuz Mandarinler, bir dönem Avrupa aydinlarinin verdigi önderlik mücadelesine isik tutan yönüyle essiz bir belgesel, duygulari, hayal kirikliklarini ele alisiyla benzersiz bir ask yapitidir. Goncourt Akademisi Edebiyat Ödülüne layik görülen Mandarinlerin tartismaya actigi sorular güncelliklerini hala korumakta, özellikle günümüzün deg...
The first part of feminist's autobiography, describing her early life and student days at the Sorbonne. Continued in "The Prime of Life", also published in the series this month.
First published in Paris in 1949, a groundbreaking, risqué book that became a runaway success. Since then, this has been translated into forty languages and has become a landmark in the history of feminism.
A Very Easy Death has long been considered one of Simone de Beauvoir's masterpieces. The profoundly moving, day-by-day recounting of her mother's death "shows the power of compassion when it is allied with acute intelligence" (The Sunday Telegraph). Powerful, touching, and sometimes shocking, this is an end-of-life account that no reader is likely to forget
Translated by Patrick O'Brian
