Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter
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| Rating | : | 4.82 (662 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B000GK5YVY |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 183 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
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Portrait of the artist as a young girl frumiousb For people who are already familiar with Beauvoir's writing, this autobiographical writing is maddeningly dense. It's almost entirely unleavened with the lightness or spaces you'd expect from prose, even autobiographical prose, and this can make it very hard to read in places.Initially, as I was reading the book, I was really resistant to it. Even though beautifully written, it was frustrating to wade through the encyclopedic portrait of her girlhood, and I truthfully didn't understand the point of all the microscopic detail.. Very nice read with lots of insight on bringing up complexions Very nice read with lots of insight on bringing up complexions, personality development, relationships and perception of the world/God. However, I found it unnecessarily long with some parts too much detailed oriented Could have been easily 50 pages shorter.. Lisa de Kleyn said Pure French Flavour. Simone de Beauvoir, Parisian pioneer in existentialist philosophy and author of feminist theory in "The Second Sex", tells all in the first of a four part autobiography, "Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter".Her book is a tumult of turbulent love, teenage angst, philosophical concepts and some clever insights. Raised in a conservative bourgeois family, she is educated and cared for, but her developing intellect forces her to reject the religion and materialism imposed upon her. She writes intricately of her relationships and the ex
"An admirably frank confession" New Yorker. Simone de Beauvoir tells revealing and sometimes shocking story of her painful growing up-her struggle for emotional freedom-and her search for love in Paris. "Belongs to the library of all women alive to modern women's anxieties and all men with open minds." N.Y. Herald Tribune. Mass Market Paperback with 352 pages