Bøker av Simone de Beauvoir

A landmark collection of Beauvoir's literary writings

Provocative insights into Beauvoir's philosophical and personal development during wartime

"One of the most acute and thoughtful achievements of French fiction at mid-century." - New York Times

Includes the full French text, accompanied by French-English vocabulary. Notes and a detailed introduction in English put the work in its social and historical context.

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.