Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter
Simone de Beauvoir author James Kirkup translator
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
Published:22nd Feb '01
Should be back in stock very soon
A superb autobiography by one of the great literary figures of the twentieth century, 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. Simone de Beavoir describes her early life, from her birth in Paris in 1908 to her student days at the Sorbonne, where she met Jean-Paul sartre - 'the dream-companion I had longed for since I was fifteen'.
ISBN: 9780141185330
Dimensions: 200mm x 130mm x 21mm
Weight: 274g
368 pages