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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 claContinue
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- English Books
- Paperback 384 Pages
- Edition: Reprint
- ISBN-10: 0060825197
- ISBN-13: 9780060825195
- Publisher: Harper Perennial Modern Classics
- Pub date: Aug 01, 2005
- Dimensions: 1290 mm x 903 mm x 194 mm Just how big is that?
- Also available as: Others
- In other languages: other languages
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Garbieri Giovanna 
Have a look into the mind of a genius
An intriguing and fascinating look into the first years of and intellectual and a woman of genius. By reading this book you
will be taken on a tour of young Simone's wishes, hopes, illusions, disappontments, strength and weaknesses. You will also get a living potrait of French society in the fi ... (continue)
An intriguing and fascinating look into the first years of and intellectual and a woman of genius. By reading this book you
will be taken on a tour of young Simone's wishes, hopes, illusions, disappontments, strength and weaknesses. You will also get a living potrait of French society in the first part of the XX century. Are you curious about who were the friends
of this great artist and philosopher, how she formed her character, what shaped her life and destiny? You will find it all here. Beware that Simone's mind had a strong tendency for
abstraction so you won't find here lots of juicy details, or a sequence of emotional adventures like in Rousseau's Confessions.
Principles, abstract thinking and reflexion had a great weight
in Simone's life and this book is principally the biography of her mind. The force of Simone's drive to be someone, to find something important and meaningful to do, her stubborn desire to find a sense for her existence, her need to "tell to everyone what she felt she had to say" glows throughout the book and is probably its principal beauty.
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