America Day By Day [Lingua Inglese] - Rilegato

De Beauvoir, Simone

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ISBN 10: 0575067128 ISBN 13: 9780575067127

Casa editrice: Gollancz, 1998

Riassunto

This is Simone de Beauvoir's account of her travels around America in 1947, from New York to Washington, San Francisco to Las Vegas, Chicago to New Orleans and the deep South. The account contains observations about postwar American culture, food and landscape.

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L'autore:

Simone Lucie-Ernestine-Marie-Bertrand de Beauvoir was born in 1908. She was a French writer and feminist, a member of the intellectual fellowship of philosopher-writers who have given a literary transcription to the themes of Existentialism. She is known primarily for her treatise Le Deuxième Sexe, 2 vol (The Second Sex) a scholarly and passionate plea for the abolition of what she called the myth of the ¿eternal feminine.¿ This seminal work became a classic of feminist literature. Schooled in private institutions, de Beauvoir attended the Sorbonne, where, in 1929, she passed her agrégation in philosophy and met Jean-Paul Sartre, beginning a lifelong association with him. Her novels expound the major Existential themes, demonstrating her conception of the writer's commitment to the times, in addition to treating feminist issues, de Beauvoir was concerned with the issue of ageing, which she addressed in Une Mort très douce (1964; A Very Easy Death). She died in 1986.

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• Editore: Gollancz
• Data di pubblicazione: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0575067128
• ISBN 13: 9780575067127
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 384