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Simone de Beauvoir: A Biography

December 4, 2013

An expansive read, but well worth the time. To touch on the author, Bair’s, actual construction--it read in journalistic style but was sectioned into chapters that left you with whole ideas and themes within Beauvoir’s life. I appreciated that, as some biographies I've read often resigned to bait-and-switch, and though that approach may propel you throughout fiction, in biography you lose some of the sense of growth, change and large periods of time building upon each other to create a complete portrait of the subject.
As for Beauvoir herself, this book is very keen to emphasize that Beauvoir was very much philosophically dependent on Sartre for most of her life. However, I interpreted Beauvoir’s firm role as reminding Sartre of the ideas of Being and Nothingness as her own philosophy--the fact that she did not constantly move with his own philosophical fluctuation shows that she has convictions of her own, and that in many ways the ideas of Being and Nothingness were created at the pinnacle of his respect for her, when they were constantly in dialogue, and therefore she exists as a thinker within that existential system to a very great extent.
The book, or their life together really, raises another good point for dialogue als

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Simone de Beauvoir

1. Life and Works

Simone de Beauvoir was born on January 9, 1908 in Paris, France. Her parents, Georges Bertrand de Beauvoir and Françoise (née) Brasseur provided Beauvoir and her younger sister Hélène, often referred to by her nickname “Poupette,” with a traditional bourgeois, Catholic upbringing. Beauvoir spent much of her childhood rebelling against the values of her faith and bourgeois ideology. The disdain for the latter would continue throughout her adult life. In her childhood, Beauvoir vowed to never become a housewife or mother and admired her father’s intelligence. He introduced the young Beauvoir to great works of literature and encouraged her to write. She pursued this out of her own interest, writing stories and keeping diaries throughout her girlhood, and more formally in her educational training at the private Catholic school for girls, the Institut Adeline Désir. At school, she formed an intimate bond with Elizabeth Mabille, or Zaza. Together, the two confronted and resisted the rigid expectations of bourgeois, Catholic femininity. When Zaza died of meningitis in 1929, Beauvoir suffered intense heartbreak. She fictionalized this heartbreak and their intimacy in the novel Inseparable (2

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Simone De Beauvoir: A Bluff, a Fondness Story

March 22, 2016

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