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61. La Force De l'Age by Simone de Beauvoir | |
Paperback: 704
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(1986-10-01)
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62. La Femme rompue, Monologue, L'Age de discretion by Simone de Beauvoir | |
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(1978-10-01)
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Self-Deception versus Lucidity |
63. La Force De l'Age (French Edition) by Simone de Beauvoir | |
Mass Market Paperback: 693
Pages
(1986-11-14)
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64. Das Andere Geschlecht (German Edition) by Simone de Beauvoir | |
Paperback: 941
Pages
(2000-11-09)
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65. Memorias de una joven formal/ Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter (Contemporanea/ Contemporary) (Spanish Edition) by Simone de Beauvoir | |
Paperback: 365
Pages
(2006-04-30)
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66. La Fuerza de Las Cosas (Spanish Edition) by Simone de Beauvoir | |
Paperback: 640
Pages
(2000-01)
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67. The Mandarins by Simone De Beauvoir | |
Hardcover: 704
Pages
(1957)
Asin: B0000CJM64 Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
68. A Disgraceful Affair: Simone de Beauvoir, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Bianca Lamblin by Bianca Lamblin | |
Hardcover: 224
Pages
(1996-03-01)
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Tangled up with Sartre and Simone.
Andre Breton's Justification?
Castor's castoff She started the book with a purpose of making her life cohere in the face of betrayal. Her naive loyalty and guilelessness help her "cling instinctively to life," as she seems to find consolation in her simple moral choices and unselfish devotion. Despite her plain, predictable, unengaging style, I sympathized with Lamblin in her struggle to maintain a precarious balance between objectivity and self-vindication. She tries to distance herself from Simone de Beauvoir, stressing their differences and disengaging herself from her famous lover's philosophical influence by reclaiming her own war-time experience as a Jew and choosing to have a family and children. And yet she continues to be constantly tormented by her inferiority to the existential duo - her attacks on Sartre's "revolutionary" ideas, for instance, remain purely emotional. She is profoundly not at peace with herself, irritated, angry, and oftentimes behaves like a hurt child, throwing the same words back at her offenders ("Truly, I would call THEIR intelligence monstrous and at the same time downright feeble"). And yet her innate grace and her perhaps never completely squelched attachment to "the Beaver" make her stop short from launching an open smearing campaign. Because she is keenly aware that the reader will be perceiving her book as an attempt at "retributive justice," she makes an effort to stay as objective as possible, which, in my opinion, is exactly what prevents her from venting her hurt feelings. Despite a simplified Lacanian explanation of her life Lamblin offers at the very end of the book, her story is a tragic example of an unresolved conflict. But perhaps what vindicates her is a sense the reader gets of a fundamental private turmoil and instability on which Simone de Beauvoir's seemingly "philosophically justified" world was based. It comes as a nice reprieve for someone who was tempted to make her ideas from The Second Sex into life principles.
Professeurs Dearest! If the reader takes the facts as the author presentsthem--and there is nothing implausible or erractic in what Lamblinrelates--what unfolds is a brief, startlingly clear reflection on what itmeans to evolve one's own workable philosophy of life based on the cardsone is dealt and the living examples one has to choose from. After herrejection by her existentalist mentors, Lamblin consciously chose aconventional, slightly leftist, life. Her mentors' narcissism seems to haveturned her away from a life focused on pursuing celebrity and gettingpublished (aside from a few academic philosophy articles, A DisgracefulAffair is Lamblin's only published work, one she didn't begin writing untilshe was in her seventies and all the key figures in the story had died).Unlike her mentors, she chose to marry and have children, decisions thatdisturbed and disgusted Beauvoir. Those looking for portraits of Sartreand Beauvoir should know that Beauvoir (unfortunately called "theBeaver" throughout the book, a nickname that might have been betterleft untranslated) is the more fully realized. Lamblin renewed herrelationship with Beauvoir after the War and continued to have platonicmeetings with her for the rest of Beauvoir's life. Lamblin's depiction ofBeauvoir's life after Sartre's death is one of profound pathos andemotional disenfranchisement. By that point, Beauvoir's alcoholism wasquite advanced and the reader senses that the great thinker and prolificwriter's death must have been a lonely, troubled, and confusing endindeed. The reader should be warned that there is a sort of craftlessnessto Lamblin's writing. For me, this added to the sense of authenticity ofwhat she was attempting to communicate. She often tells the reader what sheis going to say--or why she is relating a particular incident--beforelaunching into her account of an event. This tends to pull the reader upshort. As off-putting as this might be, for me it further convinced me ofthe author's essential guilelessness and I ultimately judged this practiceas awkward but not offensive. In addition, I suspect that Julie Plovnick'stranslation of the French original is a little wooden and literal-minded(for instance, she translates "lucide" as "lucid" in acontext where I suspect "perceptive" might have been the intendedmeaning). Readers interested in the way people, and especially women,make meaning of the troubles life throws their way will enjoy this book.Other books along this line that I have enjoyed are Girl Interrupted bySusanna Kaysen, The Liar's Club by Mary Karr, and A Loving Gentleman: TheLove Story of William Faulkner and Meta Carpenter by Meta Carpenter Wildeand Orin Borsten. ... Read more |
69. Simone de Beauvoir and the Limits of Commitment by Anne Whitmarsh | |
Paperback: 224
Pages
(2010-08-19)
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70. The Coming of Age by Simone de Beauvoir translated by Patrick O'Brien | |
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(1972)
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71. Writing Against Death: The Autobiographies of Simone de Beauvoir (Faux Titre 262) by Susan Bainbrigge | |
Paperback: 246
Pages
(2005-03)
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72. The Existential Phenomenology of Simone de Beauvoir (Contributions To Phenomenology) | |
Paperback: 272
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(2010-11-02)
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73. La Femme Rompue (French Edition) by Simone de Beauvoir | |
Mass Market Paperback: 252
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(1987-12-22)
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74. Le\Sang des Autres by Simone de Beauvoir | |
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(1973-10-01)
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75. Les Mandarins : Tome 2 by Simone de Beauvoir | |
Mass Market Paperback: 500
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(1972-06)
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76. MEMOIRS OF A DUTIFUL DAUGHTER by Simone De Beauvoir | |
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(1963)
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77. Lettres a Nelson Algren by Simone de Beauvoir | |
Mass Market Paperback: 304
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(1999-05)
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another Beauvoir |
78. When Things of the Spirit Come First by Simone de Beauvoir | |
Paperback: 212
Pages
(1982-09)
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Five fine tales
Amazing Collection of Short Stories Beautifully written before Simone de Beauvoir's famous The Second Sex, you see the beginnings of her philosophy emerging in each story.A delightful read and definitely recommended to all, especially fans of De Bauvoir's other writings.
Sadly out of print ! |
79. A Very Easy Death by Simone de Beauvoir | |
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(2005-02)
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80. Beloved Chicago Man: Letters to Nelson Algren, 1947-1964 by Simone de Beauvoir | |
Hardcover: 575
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(1998-08-06)
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Exactly the same as "Transatlantic Love Affair" |
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