"The useless mouths", and other literary writings / Simone de Beauvoir ; edited by Margaret A. Simons and Marybeth Timmermann ; foreword by Sylvie Le Bon de Beauvoir.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Beauvoir, Simone de, 1908-1986.

Contributor:

Simons, Margaret A., editor.

Timmermann, Marybeth, editor.

Le Bon de Beauvoir, Sylvie, writer of supplementary textual content.

Series:

Beauvoir, Simone de, 1908-1986. Selections. English. 2004. University of Illinois Press. Works.

The Beauvoir series

Standardized Title:

Bouches inutiles. English

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

French literature--20th century.

French literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 408 pages) illustrations.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2011]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This title brings to English-language readers literary writings - several previously unknown - by Simone de Beauvoir. Highlights of the volume include a new translation of the 1945 play 'The Useless Mouths,' the unpublished 1965 short novel 'Misunderstanding in Moscow', and more.

Contents:

Introduction / Margaret A. Simons

The useless mouths (a play) / introduction by Liz Stanley and Catherine Naji

Short articles on literature / introduction by Elizabeth Fallaize

Existentialist theater / introduction by Dennis A. Gilbert

A story I used to tell myself / introduction by Ursula Tidd

Preface to La Bâtarde by Violette Leduc / introduction by Alison S. Fell

What can literature do? / introduction by Laura Hengehold

Misunderstanding in Moscow

introduction by Terry Keefe

My experience as a writer / introduction by Elizabeth Fallaize

Short prefaces to literary works / introduction by Eleanore Holveck

Notes for a novel / introduction by Meryl Altman.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-252-08595-7

0-252-09719-X

OCLC:

897117172