A superb autobiography by one of the great literary figures of the twentieth century, Simone de Beauvoir's Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter offers an intimate picture of growing up in a bourgeois French family, rebelling as an adolescent against the conventional expectations of her class, and striking out on her own with an intellectual and existential ambition exceedingly rare in a young woman in the 1920s.
She vividly evokes her friendships, love interests, mentors, and the early days of the most important relationship of her life, with fellow student Jean-Paul Sartre, against the backdrop of a turbulent political time.
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- Intellectual life
- Childhood and youth
- Biography
- Interpersonal relations
- French Authors
- Biographies
- Ecrivains français. 20e siècle. Biographies
- Écrivains français
- Ensaio Frances
- Écrivaines françaises
- Ecrivains franais
- Feminists
- Women authors
- Authors, biography
- Beauvoir, simone de, 1908-1986
- Philosophers, france
- French Women authors
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