In "Le Sang des autres" (1945) Simone de Beauvoir places the Existentialist theme of the struggle between consciousnesses in the context of the German Occupation of France during the Second World War.

Yale French Studies is the oldest English-language journal in the United States devoted to French and Francophone literature and culture. Each volume of essays is conceived and organized by a guest ...

Inseparable. By Simone de Beauvoir. Translated by Sandra Smith. Ecco; 176 pages; $26.99. Published in Britain as “The Inseparables”. Translated by Lauren Elkin. Vintage Classics; £12.99 IN 1958, IN ...

The legend of Simone de Beauvoir—of how an obedient Catholic schoolgirl cast off her rigid, patriarchal upbringing to become the high priestess of existential feminism—is often narrated as a love ...

Intellectual, philosophical, literary, rebellious, Simone de Beauvoir spoke a mile a minute, and wrote quickly, too — novels, essays, a play, four memoirs. She was an atheist, bisexual, pioneer ...

A tragic LGBTQ love story that the great feminist and philosopher Simone de Beauvoir presumed was "too intimate" to publish during her lifetime – has finally come out. Thirty-four years after her ...

In the popular imagination, Simone de Beauvoir is best known as the foremother of contemporary feminism, and as the turbaned, chain-smoking, glamorously intellectual companion of Jean-Paul Sartre.

When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. By Alan Riding PARISIAN LIVES Samuel Beckett, Simone de Beauvoir and Me: A Memoir By Deirdre Bair ...

When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. By Leslie Camhi INSEPARABLE By Simone de Beauvoir Translated by Sandra Smith “It’s impossible to ...

A brilliant new translation of a classic. The very moment I first laid hands on the “complete and unabridged” translation of Simone de Beauvoir's “The Second Sex,” newly rendered in English by ...