Dating from her years as a philosophy student at the Sorbonne, this is the 1926-27 diary of the teenager who would become the famous French philosopher, author, and feminist, Simone de Beauvoir. It traces the development of Beauvoir's independent thinking and influence on the world.
A landmark collection of Beauvoir's literary writings
Provocative insights into Beauvoir's philosophical and personal development during wartime
Written as an act of revenge against the 17 year-old who came between her and Jean-Paul Sartre, She Came to Stay is Simone de Beauvoir's first novel - a lacerating study of a young, naive couple in love and the usurping woman who comes between them.
"One of the most acute and thoughtful achievements of French fiction at mid-century." - New York Times
Includes the full French text, accompanied by French-English vocabulary. Notes and a detailed introduction in English put the work in its social and historical context.
In 1983 de Beauvoir published Sartre's letters, maintaining that her own to him had been lost. Tracing the emotional and triangular complications of her life with Sartre, the letters reveal her not only as manipulative and dependent but Simonealso as vulnerable, passionate, jealous and committed.
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