EAN: 9780241705391

DE BEAUVOIR SIMONE THE PRIME OF LIFE

The second volume in Simone de Beauvoir's celebrated autobiography recalls her formative years
in Paris when she began to emerge as a public figure   First published in 1960  The Prime of
Life offers an intimate  captivating picture of Simone de Beauvoir in her twenties  thirties
and forties. Beginning as a recent graduate from the Sorbonne teaching high-school girls  we
see de Beauvoir revel in the freedom her new financial independence brings. We see her and
Jean-Paul Sartre recognise the powerful romantic and intellectual partnership they have found
in one another  as they fall in love and define their own unconventional parameters. The Second
World War comes  bringing austerity  violence and questions of the reality of freedom and
individual responsibility into de Beauvoir's life. As relevant and penetrating as when first
published  The Prime of Life offers rare insight into a truly fascinating mind.

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