Memoirs of a dutiful daughter

Hardcover, 365 pages

Spanish language

Published Sept. 20, 1963 by Penguin.

ISBN:
978-0-14-018331-3
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OCLC Number:
154218762

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A superb autobiography by one of the great literary figures of the twentieth century, Simone de Beauvoir's Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter offers an intimate picture of growing up in a bourgeois French family, rebelling as an adolescent against the conventional expectations of her class, and striking out on her own with an intellectual and existential ambition exceedingly rare in a young woman in the 1920s.

She vividly evokes her friendships, love interests, mentors, and the early days of the most important relationship of her life, with fellow student Jean-Paul Sartre, against the backdrop of a turbulent political time.

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  • Biography: general
  • Novels, other prose & writers: from c 1900 -
  • General
  • Biography / Autobiography
  • French