America Day By Day [Lingua Inglese] - Brossura

De Beauvoir, Simone

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ISBN 10: 0753808595 ISBN 13: 9780753808597

Casa editrice: Phoenix, 1999

Riassunto

De Beauvoir travelled intrepidly from New York to Washington, San Francisco to Las Vegas, Chicago (where she met Nelson Algren) to New Orleans and the Deep South. Her account is packed with beautiful descriptions and penetrating observations about postwar American culture, food, and landscape - some of historical interest, some, which ring just as true today. De Beauvoir loved exploring the seamier side of cities - visiting drug dens in Chicago, smoking poet a bohemian parties in New York. She was shocked by the vast gulf between rich and proof everywhere in the country, and by segregation in the Deep South. "America Day by Day" is classic travel writing - vivid, personal, and inquisitive.

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Descrizione del libro:

Simone de Beauvoir¿s wonderful account of her travels around America in 1947.

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: Phoenix
• Data di pubblicazione: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0753808595
• ISBN 13: 9780753808597
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 384