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...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 time in France politically.
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