The Woman Destroyed by Simone De Beauvoir

The Woman Destroyed by Simone De Beauvoir

One of the most influential thinkers of her generation draws us into the lives of three women, all past their first youth, all facing unexpected crises in these three immensely intelligent stories about the decay of passion (The Sunday Herald Times).

Suffused with de Beauvoir's remarkable insights into women, The Woman Destroyed gives us a legendary writer at her best. Includes The Age of Discretion, The Monologue, and The Woman Destroyed.

Witty, immensely adroit...These three women are believable individuals presented with a wry mixture of sympathy and exasperation. --The Atlantic

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	9780394711034
ISBN 10	0394711033
Title	The Woman Destroyed
Author	Simone De Beauvoir
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Random House USA Inc
Year published	1987-08-12
Number of pages	256
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