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Title: Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter by Simone de Beauvoir ISBN: 0-06-090351-1 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 29 June, 1974 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.17 (6 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Have a look into the mind of a genius
Comment: An intriguing and fascinating look into the first years of and intellectual and a woman of genius. By reading this book you
will be taken on a tour of young Simone's wishes, hopes, illusions, disappontments, strength and weaknesses. You will also get a living potrait of French society in the first part of the XX century. Are you curious about who were the friends
of this great artist and philosopher, how she formed her character, what shaped her life and destiny? You will find it all here. Beware that Simone's mind had a strong tendency for
abstraction so you won't find here lots of juicy details, or a sequence of emotional adventures like in Rousseau's Confessions.
Principles, abstract thinking and reflexion had a great weight
in Simone's life and this book is principally the biography of her mind. The force of Simone's drive to be someone, to find something important and meaningful to do, her stubborn desire to find a sense for her existence, her need to "tell to everyone what she felt she had to say" glows throughout the book and is probably its principal beauty.
Rating: 4
Summary: The Formation of A Philosopher
Comment: Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter is the first in a series of autobiographies by Simone de Beauvoir. Beauvoir tells the reader of her early days as a child and she concludes while she is a young women with the loss of her beloved friend Zaza. The memoir is at times a bit dry, and dull, but I dont think it was the intent of Beauvoir to write an exciting tale of her childhood. Instead I believe that the book was written more to show the path Beauvoir took in being an intellectual and why. Many times in the book French bourgeios soceity is criticized by Beauvoir because there was a double standard that exisited. For instance as Beauvoir writes about her mother "Convention obliged her to excuse certain [sexual] indescretions in men; she concentrated her disapproval on women; she divided women into those who were 'respectable' and those who were 'lose" (38). All throughout the book the reader is presented with a double standard-- men do what they want have carrers, jobs etc. while women must be pure and stay at home to have children. Not only is bourgeois society criticized, so too is the Catholic church in its regards to French private and public education. Besides the main themes Beauvoir talks about her childhood recolections-- her visiting relatives, her love of books, and her friends which culminates in the death of her life long friend Zaza. Beauvoir sees Zaza death as the fault of the French bourgeois system becuase Zaza died died of a broken heart at not being able to marry her love. The book is full of criticisms, and odinary tales. The best atribute of the book is that it presents the reader to the world of early 20th century French bourgeois society.
Rating: 3
Summary: PORTRAIT OF THE PHILOSOPHER AS A YOUNG WOMAN
Comment: It is interesting that a previous reviewer at the site called this the most accessible volume of Simone's memoirs while another wrote that this is not the best place to start with Simone. I agree with the latter. I have come to the conclusion that Simone's own diligence sometimes brought her to her knees. This was a woman capable of working for hours on end. . .and drinking just as hard. Clearly, she was ambivalent about herself:she knew she was of superior intelligence -- she finished her aggregation at the age of 21 -- yet she maintained a position that she was second to Sartre. She said that she never felt handicapped as a woman and yet she suffered from many of woman's woes -- crying and jealousy. I started with Simone's war-time memoirs -- Force of Circumstance -- which are so riveting that they draw you immediately into them. I expected the same sort of lush and wonderful writing here. I may have approached this volume with my hopes too high. A word of warning: Catholicism obviously made quite an impact on the young Simone. Readers who are not Catholic maybe mystified by this book.
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Title: The Second Sex by Simone De Beauvoir ISBN: 0679724516 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 17 December, 1989 List Price(USD): $17.00 |
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Title: The Prime of Life: The Autobiography of Simone De Beauvoir by Simone De Beauvoir, Simone De Beauvoir ISBN: 1569249563 Publisher: Marlowe & Co Pub. Date: April, 1994 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: The Ethics of Ambiguity by Simone De Beauvoir, Somone De Beauvior ISBN: 080650160X Publisher: Citadel Trade Pub. Date: October, 2000 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
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Title: After the War: Force of Circumstance, 1944-1952 (Autobiography of Simone De Beauvoir) by Simone De Beauvoir, Richard Howard, Simone De Beauvoir ISBN: 1569249822 Publisher: Marlowe & Co Pub. Date: April, 1994 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: The Mandarins by Simone de Beauvoir ISBN: 0393318834 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: 01 July, 1999 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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