Memoirs of a dutiful daughter / Simone de Beauvoir ; translated from the French by James Kirkup.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Beauvoir, Simone de, 1908-1986

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Harper Perennial modern classics

Standardized Title:

Mémoires d'une jeune fille rangée. English

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Beauvoir, Simone de, 1908-1986--Childhood and youth.

Beauvoir, Simone de.

Beauvoir, Simone de, 1908-1986.

Paris (France)--Intellectual life--20th century--Biography.

Paris (France).

Genre:

Autobiographies.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

365 pages ; 20 cm.

Edition:

First Harper Perennial Modern Classics edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : HarperPerennial, 2005.

Language Note:

Translated from the French.

Summary:

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.

Notes:

This translation originally published: World Publishing Co., 1959.

Translation of: Mémoirs d'une jeune fille rangée.

Includes index.

ISBN:

0060825197

9780060825195

OCLC:

61170307