Memoirs Of A Dutiful Daughter
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Tanning and foxing
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Long before she became one of the defining intellectual voices of the twentieth century, Simone de Beauvoir was a girl navigating the rigid expectations of bourgeois Parisian society — and Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter chronicles that extraordinary awakening with unflinching honesty and devastating clarity. This celebrated autobiography traces de Beauvoir's life from early childhood through her formative years at the Sorbonne, charting her fierce intellectual rebellion against a conservative Catholic upbringing, her tumultuous relationships with family and friends, and her pivotal encounter with Jean-Paul Sartre, the partnership that would shape both her life and the existentialist movement. Rich in psychological insight and suffused with the restless energy of a mind refusing to be contained, this memoir stands as both a deeply personal document and a landmark work of feminist literature. De Beauvoir's prose is precise yet passionate, dismantling the social constructs imposed upon women with the same rigour she would later apply in The Second Sex. For any reader seeking to understand how one of history's most formidable thinkers was forged, this account of defiance, identity, and intellectual awakening leaves a question that lingers long after the final page: what does it truly cost a woman to become herself?
Author: Simone De Beauvoir
Format: Paperback
Genre: Biography
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
Long before she became one of the defining intellectual voices of the twentieth century, Simone de Beauvoir was a girl navigating the rigid expectations of bourgeois Parisian society — and Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter chronicles that extraordinary awakening with unflinching honesty and devastating clarity. This celebrated autobiography traces de Beauvoir's life from early childhood through her formative years at the Sorbonne, charting her fierce intellectual rebellion against a conservative Catholic upbringing, her tumultuous relationships with family and friends, and her pivotal encounter with Jean-Paul Sartre, the partnership that would shape both her life and the existentialist movement. Rich in psychological insight and suffused with the restless energy of a mind refusing to be contained, this memoir stands as both a deeply personal document and a landmark work of feminist literature. De Beauvoir's prose is precise yet passionate, dismantling the social constructs imposed upon women with the same rigour she would later apply in The Second Sex. For any reader seeking to understand how one of history's most formidable thinkers was forged, this account of defiance, identity, and intellectual awakening leaves a question that lingers long after the final page: what does it truly cost a woman to become herself?