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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Kirkpatrick, Kate
Titre(s) : Becoming Beauvoir [Texte imprimé] : a life / Kate Kirkpatrick
Publication : London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, copyright 2019
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (XIV-476 p.) : illustrations ; 23 cm
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references and index
'One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman', wrote Simone de Beauvoir. This is
a woman who was also to become a philosopher, a novelist, an existentialist, and a
feminist icon. Her novels won prestigious literary prizes and The Second Sex transformed
the way we think about sex and gender. She was also the long-term lover of Jean-Paul
Sartre, but it was to film-maker Claude Lanzmann that she wrote 'You are my destiny,
my eternity, my life' in letters which only came to light in 2018. Kate Kirkpatrick
draws on previously unavailable diaries and letters, including those written to Lanzmann.
The new personal details about her life revealed for the first time by the book can
only deepen the mystery and our fascination with her. Why did this 'feminist icon'
edit her image so much? Why did she lie about her relationship with Sartre so often,
or claim not to be a philosopher? Perhaps with so much that's new here we'll get a
little closer to understanding who Beauvoir really was.
Sujet(s) : Beauvoir, Simone de (1908-1986)
Genre ou forme : Biographie
Indice(s) Dewey :
194 (23e éd.) = Philosophie occidentale moderne - France
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781350047174. - ISBN 1350047171. - ISBN 9781350047181. - ISBN 9781350047198
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb45814264h
Notice n° :
FRBNF45814264
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Table des matières : Introduction : Simone de Beauvoir : who's she? ; Growing like a girl ; The dutiful
daughter ; Lover of God or lover of men? ; The love before the legend ; The valkyrie
and the playboy ; Rooms of her own ; The trio that was a quartet ; War within,
war without ; Forgotten philosophy ; Queen of existentialism ; American dilemmas
; The scandalous 'Second Sex' ; Putting a new face on love ; Feelig gypped ; Old
age revealed ; The dying of the light ; Afterwords : What will become of Simone
de Beauvoir?