The Woman Destroyed - Brossura

Beauvoir, Simone De

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ISBN 10: 0006540589 ISBN 13: 9780006540588

Casa editrice: Flamingo, 1994

Riassunto

Three long stories that draw the reader into the lives of three women, all past their first youth, all facing unexpected crises.

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L'autore:

Simon de Beauvoir was born in Paris in 1908. A close friend of the writer and philosopher Jean-Paul Satre, and well-known as a leader of the Existentialist movement in Paris, her novels have won wide acclaim throughout the world. Her famous work, The Second Sex, was hailed as a landmark study of women, and her novels, including The Woman Destroyed and She Came to Stay, have become well-loved classics. She died in 1968.

Dalla quarta di copertina:

'The Woman Destroyed' is a collection of three stories, each an exquisite and passionate study of a woman trapped by circumstances, trying to re-build her life.

In the first story, 'The Age of Discretion', a successful scholar fast approaching middle age begins to feel that 'life is going to take back everything it has given me' when her trouble-free existence is threatened by a double shock – her son's abandonment of the career she has chosen for him and the harsh critical rejection of her latest academic work. 'The Monologue' is an extraordinary New Year's Eve outpouring of invective from a woman consumed with bitterness and loneliness after her son and husband have left home. And finally, in the title piece, Simone de Beauvoir tells the story of Monique, trying desperately to resurrect her life (“I want to live a little for myself after all this time. I have plans by the dozen.”) after her husband confesses to an affair with a younger woman.

Compassionate, lucid, full of wit and knowing, Simone de Beauvoir's rare insight into the inequities and complexities of women's lives is unsurpassable.

“In these immensely intelligent stories about the decay of passion, Simone de Beauvoir shares with other women novelists the ability to write about emotion in the terms of direct experience. What is unique and supremely valuable in her work is the capacity to retain at the same time a coolness and critical detachment towards her material.”
SUNDAY TIMES

“Intensely readable, with the warmth and identification with the characters that made 'The Mandarins' so outstanding.”
NEW STATESMAN

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Flamingo
• Data di pubblicazione: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0006540589
• ISBN 13: 9780006540588
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 224