La femme rompue/Monologue/L'age de discretion by Simone De Beauvoir

La femme rompue/Monologue/L'age de discretion by Simone De Beauvoir

These three long stories draw us into the lives of three women, all past their first youth, all facing unexpected crises. In the title story, the heroine's serenity is shattered when she learns that her husband is having an affair. In The Age of Discretion, a successful, happily married professor finds herself increasingly distressed by her son's absorption in his young wife and her worldly values. In The Monologue, a rich, spoiled woman, home alone on New Year's Eve, pours out a lifetime's rage and frustration in a harrowing diatribe. Enthralling as fiction, suffused with de Beauvoir's remarkable insights into women, The Woman Destroyed gives us a legendary writer at her best.

Simone de Beauvoir was born in Paris in 1908. In 1929 she became the youngest person ever to obtain the agregation in philosophy at the Sorbonne, placing second to Jean-Paul Sartre. She taught at lycees at Marseille and Rouen from 1931 to 1937, and in Paris from 1938 to 1943. After the war, she emerged as one of the leaders of the existentialist movement, working with Sartre on Les Temps Modernes. The author of several books, including The Mandarins (1957), which was awarded the Prix Goncourt, Beauvoir was one of the most influential thinkers of her generation. She died in 1986.

Constance Borde and Sheila Malovany-Chevallier, both American, are longtime residents of France and former teachers at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques in Paris.

Judith Thurman, author of Isak Dinesen and Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette, is a staff writer at The New Yorker.

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ISBN 13	9782070369607
ISBN 10	2070369609
Title	La femme rompue/Monologue/L'age de discretion
Author	Simone De Beauvoir
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Gallimard
Year published	1973-05-01
Number of pages	252
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