Most Popular Books by Simone de Beauvoir

After a beautiful and accomplished young actress revives a downcast stranger at a French resort, he reveals that he is immortal.

A captivating novella about long-term relationships, getting older and how to live a good life, by the great Simone de Beauvoir. Nicole and André, a retired French couple, take a summer holiday to Russia. It is the 1960s and Russia is a beautiful, complicated place. Their guide is Macha, André''s daughter from a previous relationship - a woman they both love. Adventure, inspiration, good food and good vodka are promised. Once thrilled by their romance, Nicole and André have now become too used to each other. Both harbour a growing feeling of not being fully understood - of being alone. Father and daughter engage in the grand debates of East-West relations, nationalism and socialism. But getting older, long-term relationships and how to enjoy life turn out to be the more pressing issues.

Includes pages that contain the key passages of the book that changed perceptions of women forever.

Simone de Beauvoir, still a teen, began a diary while a philosophy student at the Sorbonne. Written in 1926-27—before Beauvoir met Jean-Paul Sartre—the diaries reveal previously unknown details about her life and times and offer critical insights into her early intellectual interests, philosophy, and literary works. Presented for the first time in translation, this fully annotated first volume of the Diary includes essays from Barbara Klaw and Margaret A. Simons that address its philosophical, historical, and literary significance. It remains an invaluable resource for tracing the development of Beauvoir’s independent thinking and her influence on philosophy, feminism, and the world.

When Andrée joins her school, Sylvie is immediately fascinated. Andrée is small for her age but walks with the confidence of an adult. The girls become close. They talk for hours about equality, justice, war and religion; they lose respect for their teachers; they build a world of their own. But as the girls grow into young women, the pressures of society mount, threatening everything. This novel was never published in Simone de Beauvoir''s lifetime. It tells the story of the real-life friendship that shaped one of the most important thinkers and feminists of the twentieth century. ''Slim, elegant, achingly tragic and unaffectedly lovely in its evocation of the closeness between girls - and the pressures that sunder them'' Spectator VINTAGE FRENCH CLASSICS - five masterpieces of French fiction in gorgeous new gift editions. TRANSLATED BY LAUREN ELKIN - INTRODUCED BY DEBORAH LEVY

Das berühmte Standardwerk von Simone de Beauvoir. Die universelle Standortbestimmung der Frau, die aus jahrtausendealter Abhängigkeit von männlicher Vorherrschaft ausgebrochen ist, hat nichts an Gültigkeit eingebüßt. Die Scharfsichtigkeit der grundlegenden Analyse tritt in der Neuübersetzung noch deutlicher hervor.

"The Useless Mouths" and Other Literary Writings brings to English-language readers literary writings--several previously unknown--by Simone de Beauvoir. Culled from sources including various American university collections, the works span decades of Beauvoir''s career. Ranging from dramatic works and literary theory to radio broadcasts, they collectively reveal fresh insights into Beauvoir''s writing process, personal life, and the honing of her philosophy. The volume begins with a new translation of the 1945 play The Useless Mouths, written in Paris during the Nazi occupation. Other pieces were discovered after Beauvoir''s death in 1986, such as the 1965 short novel "Misunderstanding in Moscow," involving an elderly French couple who confront their fears of aging. Two additional previously unknown texts include the fragmentary "Notes for a Novel," which contains the seed of what she later would call "the problem of the Other," and a lecture on postwar French theater titled Existentialist Theater. The collection notably includes the eagerly awaited translation of Beauvoir''s contribution to a 1965 debate among Jean-Paul Sartre and other French writers and intellectuals, "What Can Literature Do?" Prefaces to well-known works such as Bluebeard and Other Fairy Tales,La Bâtarde, and James Joyce in Paris: His Final Years are also available in English for the first time, alongside essays and other short articles. A landmark contribution to Beauvoir studies and French literary studies, the volume includes informative and engaging introductory essays by prominent and rising scholars. Contributors are Meryl Altman, Elizabeth Fallaize, Alison S. Fell, Sarah Gendron, Dennis A. Gilbert, Laura Hengehold, Eleanore Holveck, Terry Keefe, J. Debbie Mann, Frederick M. Morrison, Catherine Naji, Justine Sarrot, Liz Stanley, Ursula Tidd, and Veronique Zaytzeff.

On a visit to America in 1947, Simone de Beauvoir met the left-wing writer Nelson Algren and an intense, transatlantic love affair began. The couple met only once or twice a year, but between liaisons, de Beauvoir wrote Algren hundreds of letters; these letters are reproduced here.

Memórias de uma moça bem-comportada é uma esplêndida autobiografia de uma das maiores escritoras do século XX, Simone de Beauvoir. Dona de um espírito inconformado e autêntico, Simone nos mostra sua infância religiosa numa família de classe média parisiense, a adolescência rebelde e a posterior devoção à literatura. Ela evoca vividamente suas amizades, seus interesses amorosos, seus mentores e o início da duradoura relação com o escritor e filósofo existencialista Jean-Paul Sartre. Memórias incríveis, numa obra essencial para quem deseja conhecer um pouco mais a vida de um dos principais ícones do feminismo até hoje. Esta edição conta com o prefácio de Lilia Moritz Schwarcz, escritora, professora e imortal da Academia Brasileira de Letras. -- "Simone de Beauvoir, em suas memórias, nos dá a conhecer sua vida e sua obra. Quatro volumes foram publicados entre 1958 e 1972: Memórias de uma moça bem-comportada, A força da idade, A força das coisas e Balanço final. A estes, se uniu a narrativa Uma morte muito suave, de 1964." - Trecho extraído do texto introdutório presente na edição.

Peu de temps après le jour V, je passai une nuit très gaie avec Camus, Chauffard, Loleh Bellon, Vitold, et une ravissante Portugaise qui s''appelait Viola. D''un bar de Montparnasse qui venait de fermer, nous descendîmes vers l''hôtel de la Louisiane; Loleh marchait pieds nus sur l''asphalte, elle disait : C''est mon anniversaire, j''ai vingt ans. Nous avons acheté des bouteilles et nous les avons bues dans la chambre ronde ; la fenêtre était ouverte sur la douceur de mai et des noctambules nous criaient des mots d''amitié ; pour eux aussi, c''était le premier printemps de paix. Simone de Beauvoir, née en 1908 à Paris, a raconté son enfance et son adolescence dans Mémoires d’une jeune fille rangée, sa vie à Paris, ses débuts d’écrivain, la guerre et l’Occupation dans La force de l’âge. La troisième partie de ses souvenirs, La force des choses, commence dans le Paris de la Libération.

Os adversários do existencialismo afirmam que uma filosofia da liberdade é, «a priori», incapaz de propor uma moral. Na medida em que somos livres, dizem eles, somos livres de desejar o que bem entendermos. Simone de Beauvoir propôs-se, por isso, avançar alguns princípios teóricos que validassem a possibilidade de uma moral existencialista, tarefa que Jean-Paul Sartre deixou por realizar.

La más celebrada obra de la escritora, esta historia de un triángulo amoroso entre dos adultos y una jovencita pone al descubierto las más oscuras ambigüedades de la moral al uso.

Young French men and women interact in love and politics as they simultaneously create and react to the social, intellectual and political climate of post-war Paris

"L''Amérique n''est nulle part. Mais la musique échappe aux rigueurs de l''espace" (p. 179-180). A la fois essai et témoignage, ce livre a été écrit à la suite d''un séjour de quatre mois aux Etats-Unis, en 1947. Selon le préfacier, le regard de S. de Beauvoir, en particulier sur l''enseignement américain, "est très révélateur de la combinaison d''égalitarisme et d''élitisme, assez typiquement française, à laquelle elle est attachée" (cf. la préface, p. i-xvii).

Autobiography of French author Simone deBeauvoir.

La force de l''âge est pleinement atteinte quand la guerre éclate, en 1939, mettant fin brutalement à dix années de vie merveilleusement libre.