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America Day by Day

– America Day by Day. Translated by Carol Cosman. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990. English translation of L'Amérique au jour le jour (Paris: Gallimard, 1954).
From the publisher: Here is the ultimate American road book, one with a perspective unlike that of any other. In January 1947 Simone de Beauvoir landed at La Guardia airport and began a… More

The Long March

– The Long March. Translated by Austryn Wainhouse. New York: The World Publishing, 1958. English translation of La longue marche (Paris: Gallimard, 1957).
From the publisher: Beauvoir turns her attention eastward to China and paints a masterly picture of that nation in modern times. Honest and detailed, it comes from de Beauvoir’s… More

Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter

– Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter. Translated by James Kirkup. Middlesex: Penguin Books, 1963. English translation of Mémoires d'une jeune fille rangée (Paris: Gallimard, 1958).
From the publisher: 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… More

The Prime of Life: The Autobiography of Simone De Beauvoir

– The Prime of Life. Translated by Peter Green. New York: Lancer Books, 1966. English translation of La force de l'âge (Paris: Gallimard, 1960).
From the publisher: The author recalls her life in Paris in the formative years of 1929 to 1944, telling of her relationship with Jean-Paul Sartre and of Parisian intellectual life of the… More

A Very Easy Death

– A Very Easy Death. Translated by Patrick O'Brian. New York: Pantheon Books, 1965. English translation of Une mort très douce (Paris: Gallimard, 1964).
From the publisher: A Very Easy Death has long been considered one of Simone de Beauvoir’s masterpieces. The profoundly moving, day-by-day recounting of her mother’s death “shows the… More

Adieux: A Farewell to Sartre

– Adieux: A Farewell to Sartre. Translated by Patrick O'Brian. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1986. English translation of La cérémonie des adieux (Paris: Gallimard, 1981).
From the publisher: Simone de Beauvoir’s account of the last ten years of Jean-Paul Sartre’s life provides a focus for understanding one of the greatest thinkers of the twentieth… More

Simone de Beauvoir: A Life of Freedom

– Ascher, Carol. Simone de Beauvoir: A Life of Freedom. Boston: Beacon Press, 1981.
From the publisher: Writer, intellectual adventurer, fighter for personal and political freedom, feminist, and intimate companion to Jean-Paul Sartre for over fifty years, Simone de… More

After the Second Sex: Conversations with Simone de Beauvoir

– Schwarzer, Alice. After the Second Sex: Conversations with Simone de Beauvoir, translated by Marianne Howarth. New York: Pantheon Books, 1984.
From the publisher: Conversations with Simone de Beauvoir by Alice Schwarzer. Simone de Beauvoir’s “The Second Sex” became the Bible of modern feminism, just as her life… More

Simone de Beauvoir: A Life, A Love Story

– Francis, Claude and Gontier, Fernande. Simone de Beauvoir: A Life, A Love Story, translated by L. Nesselson. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1987.
From the publisher: A novelist, philosopher and political activist, Simone de Beauvoir expressed her ideas with a passion and a power that inspired a generation of women to explore their… More

Simone de Beauvoir: A Critical View

– Winegarten, Renee. Simone de Beauvoir: A Critical View. New York: Berg, 1988.
From a review: The subtitle of this study gives fair warning of the demystifing spirit in which Simone de Beauvoir’s biography is to be approached in this text. It is therefore not… More

Simone de Beauvoir: A Biography

– Bair, Deirdre. Simone de Beauvoir: A Biography. New York: Summit Books, 1990.
From a review: This impressively researched biography by the author of Samuel Beckett is the most detailed account to date of the life and work of de Beauvoir (1908-1986). Based on many… More

Letters to Sartre

– Letters to Sartre. Translated and Edited by Quintin Hoare. London: Vintage, 1992. English translation of Lettres à Sartre (Paris: Gallimard, 1990).
From the publisher: Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre formed one of the most famous literary couples of the twentieth century. Their relationship took on the quality of legend and… More

Simone De Beauvoir: The Woman and Her Work

– Crosland, Margaret. Simone de Beauvoir: The Woman and Her Work. London: Heinemann, 1992.
From the publisher: From 1949, when she wrote “The Second Sex”, until her death in 1986, Simone de Beauvoir was at the centre of French intellectual life. This biography… More

Simone de Beauvoir: The Making of an Intellectual Woman

– Moi, Toril. Simone de Beauvoir: The Making of an Intellectual Woman. Oxford: Blackwell, 1994.
From the publisher: In Simone de Beauvoir: The Making of an Intellectual Woman, Toril Moi shows how Simone de Beauvoir became the leading feminist thinker and emblematic intellectual woman… More

A Transatlantic Love Affair: Letters to Nelson Algren

– A Transatlantic Love Affair: Letters to Nelson Algren. Compiled and annotated by Sylvie le Bon de Beauvoir. New York: The New Press, 1998.
From the publisher: In 1947, Simone de Beauvoir met Pulitzer Prize–winning writer Nelson Algren in Chicago, and it was love at first sight. A passionate affair ensued, spanning twenty… More

Simone de Beauvoir Writing the Self: Philosophy Becomes Autobiography

– Pilardi, Jo-Ann. Simone de Beauvoir Writing the Self: Philosophy Becomes Autobiography, Westport: Greenwood Press, 1999.
From the publisher: The development of Simone de Beauvoir’s notion of self in both her philosophical and autobiographical writings is analyzed in this volume. Two ideas of the self… More

Simone de Beauvoir and Jean Paul Sartre: Woman, Man and the Desire to be God

– Bergoffen, Debra. “Simone de Beauvoir and Jean Paul Sartre: Woman, Man and the Desire to be God”, Constellations,9 (3): 406–418, 2002.
Abstract: Beauvoir and Sartre share an existential vocabulary. Both invoke the categories of bad faith and the look, both describe consciousness as a transcendence and a freedom and both… More

Genre and Void: Looking Back at Sartre and Beauvoir

– Deutscher, Max. Genre and Void : Looking Back at Sartre and Beauvoir. Aldershot and Burlington: Ashgate, 2003.
From the publisher: Developing a reading of some of Beauvoir and Sartre’s most influential writings in philosophy, Max Deutscher explores contemporary philosophy in the light of the… More

Beauvoir & Sartre: The Riddle of Influence

– Daigle, Christine, and Golomb, Jacob (eds.). Beauvoir & Sartre: The Riddle of Influence. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2009.
From the publisher: While many scholars consider Simone de Beauvoir an important philosopher in her own right, thorny issues of mutual influence between her thought and that of Jean-Paul… More

Not Lost in Translation by Christina Hoff Sommers

– Hoff Sommers, Christina. “Not Lost in Translation.” Claremont Review of Books. December 8, 2010.
Excerpt: In 1949, Simone de Beauvoir, then 41 years old, created a sensation in Paris with her book The Second Sex. Women, she argued, are half the human race but in all places and times… More

Essays

America Day by Day

– America Day by Day. Translated by Carol Cosman. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990. English translation of L'Amérique au jour le jour (Paris: Gallimard, 1954).
From the publisher: Here is the ultimate American road book, one with a perspective unlike that of any other. In January 1947 Simone de Beauvoir landed at La Guardia airport and began a… More

The Long March

– The Long March. Translated by Austryn Wainhouse. New York: The World Publishing, 1958. English translation of La longue marche (Paris: Gallimard, 1957).
From the publisher: Beauvoir turns her attention eastward to China and paints a masterly picture of that nation in modern times. Honest and detailed, it comes from de Beauvoir’s… More

Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter

– Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter. Translated by James Kirkup. Middlesex: Penguin Books, 1963. English translation of Mémoires d'une jeune fille rangée (Paris: Gallimard, 1958).
From the publisher: 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… More

The Prime of Life: The Autobiography of Simone De Beauvoir

– The Prime of Life. Translated by Peter Green. New York: Lancer Books, 1966. English translation of La force de l'âge (Paris: Gallimard, 1960).
From the publisher: The author recalls her life in Paris in the formative years of 1929 to 1944, telling of her relationship with Jean-Paul Sartre and of Parisian intellectual life of the… More

A Very Easy Death

– A Very Easy Death. Translated by Patrick O'Brian. New York: Pantheon Books, 1965. English translation of Une mort très douce (Paris: Gallimard, 1964).
From the publisher: A Very Easy Death has long been considered one of Simone de Beauvoir’s masterpieces. The profoundly moving, day-by-day recounting of her mother’s death “shows the… More

Adieux: A Farewell to Sartre

– Adieux: A Farewell to Sartre. Translated by Patrick O'Brian. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1986. English translation of La cérémonie des adieux (Paris: Gallimard, 1981).
From the publisher: Simone de Beauvoir’s account of the last ten years of Jean-Paul Sartre’s life provides a focus for understanding one of the greatest thinkers of the twentieth… More

Simone de Beauvoir: A Life of Freedom

– Ascher, Carol. Simone de Beauvoir: A Life of Freedom. Boston: Beacon Press, 1981.
From the publisher: Writer, intellectual adventurer, fighter for personal and political freedom, feminist, and intimate companion to Jean-Paul Sartre for over fifty years, Simone de… More

After the Second Sex: Conversations with Simone de Beauvoir

– Schwarzer, Alice. After the Second Sex: Conversations with Simone de Beauvoir, translated by Marianne Howarth. New York: Pantheon Books, 1984.
From the publisher: Conversations with Simone de Beauvoir by Alice Schwarzer. Simone de Beauvoir’s “The Second Sex” became the Bible of modern feminism, just as her life… More

Simone de Beauvoir: A Life, A Love Story

– Francis, Claude and Gontier, Fernande. Simone de Beauvoir: A Life, A Love Story, translated by L. Nesselson. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1987.
From the publisher: A novelist, philosopher and political activist, Simone de Beauvoir expressed her ideas with a passion and a power that inspired a generation of women to explore their… More

Simone de Beauvoir: A Critical View

– Winegarten, Renee. Simone de Beauvoir: A Critical View. New York: Berg, 1988.
From a review: The subtitle of this study gives fair warning of the demystifing spirit in which Simone de Beauvoir’s biography is to be approached in this text. It is therefore not… More

Simone de Beauvoir: A Biography

– Bair, Deirdre. Simone de Beauvoir: A Biography. New York: Summit Books, 1990.
From a review: This impressively researched biography by the author of Samuel Beckett is the most detailed account to date of the life and work of de Beauvoir (1908-1986). Based on many… More

Letters to Sartre

– Letters to Sartre. Translated and Edited by Quintin Hoare. London: Vintage, 1992. English translation of Lettres à Sartre (Paris: Gallimard, 1990).
From the publisher: Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre formed one of the most famous literary couples of the twentieth century. Their relationship took on the quality of legend and… More

Simone De Beauvoir: The Woman and Her Work

– Crosland, Margaret. Simone de Beauvoir: The Woman and Her Work. London: Heinemann, 1992.
From the publisher: From 1949, when she wrote “The Second Sex”, until her death in 1986, Simone de Beauvoir was at the centre of French intellectual life. This biography… More

Simone de Beauvoir: The Making of an Intellectual Woman

– Moi, Toril. Simone de Beauvoir: The Making of an Intellectual Woman. Oxford: Blackwell, 1994.
From the publisher: In Simone de Beauvoir: The Making of an Intellectual Woman, Toril Moi shows how Simone de Beauvoir became the leading feminist thinker and emblematic intellectual woman… More

A Transatlantic Love Affair: Letters to Nelson Algren

– A Transatlantic Love Affair: Letters to Nelson Algren. Compiled and annotated by Sylvie le Bon de Beauvoir. New York: The New Press, 1998.
From the publisher: In 1947, Simone de Beauvoir met Pulitzer Prize–winning writer Nelson Algren in Chicago, and it was love at first sight. A passionate affair ensued, spanning twenty… More

Simone de Beauvoir Writing the Self: Philosophy Becomes Autobiography

– Pilardi, Jo-Ann. Simone de Beauvoir Writing the Self: Philosophy Becomes Autobiography, Westport: Greenwood Press, 1999.
From the publisher: The development of Simone de Beauvoir’s notion of self in both her philosophical and autobiographical writings is analyzed in this volume. Two ideas of the self… More

Simone de Beauvoir and Jean Paul Sartre: Woman, Man and the Desire to be God

– Bergoffen, Debra. “Simone de Beauvoir and Jean Paul Sartre: Woman, Man and the Desire to be God”, Constellations,9 (3): 406–418, 2002.
Abstract: Beauvoir and Sartre share an existential vocabulary. Both invoke the categories of bad faith and the look, both describe consciousness as a transcendence and a freedom and both… More

Genre and Void: Looking Back at Sartre and Beauvoir

– Deutscher, Max. Genre and Void : Looking Back at Sartre and Beauvoir. Aldershot and Burlington: Ashgate, 2003.
From the publisher: Developing a reading of some of Beauvoir and Sartre’s most influential writings in philosophy, Max Deutscher explores contemporary philosophy in the light of the… More

Beauvoir & Sartre: The Riddle of Influence

– Daigle, Christine, and Golomb, Jacob (eds.). Beauvoir & Sartre: The Riddle of Influence. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2009.
From the publisher: While many scholars consider Simone de Beauvoir an important philosopher in her own right, thorny issues of mutual influence between her thought and that of Jean-Paul… More

Not Lost in Translation by Christina Hoff Sommers

– Hoff Sommers, Christina. “Not Lost in Translation.” Claremont Review of Books. December 8, 2010.
Excerpt: In 1949, Simone de Beauvoir, then 41 years old, created a sensation in Paris with her book The Second Sex. Women, she argued, are half the human race but in all places and times… More

Commentary

America Day by Day

– America Day by Day. Translated by Carol Cosman. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990. English translation of L'Amérique au jour le jour (Paris: Gallimard, 1954).
From the publisher: Here is the ultimate American road book, one with a perspective unlike that of any other. In January 1947 Simone de Beauvoir landed at La Guardia airport and began a… More

The Long March

– The Long March. Translated by Austryn Wainhouse. New York: The World Publishing, 1958. English translation of La longue marche (Paris: Gallimard, 1957).
From the publisher: Beauvoir turns her attention eastward to China and paints a masterly picture of that nation in modern times. Honest and detailed, it comes from de Beauvoir’s… More

Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter

– Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter. Translated by James Kirkup. Middlesex: Penguin Books, 1963. English translation of Mémoires d'une jeune fille rangée (Paris: Gallimard, 1958).
From the publisher: 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… More

The Prime of Life: The Autobiography of Simone De Beauvoir

– The Prime of Life. Translated by Peter Green. New York: Lancer Books, 1966. English translation of La force de l'âge (Paris: Gallimard, 1960).
From the publisher: The author recalls her life in Paris in the formative years of 1929 to 1944, telling of her relationship with Jean-Paul Sartre and of Parisian intellectual life of the… More

A Very Easy Death

– A Very Easy Death. Translated by Patrick O'Brian. New York: Pantheon Books, 1965. English translation of Une mort très douce (Paris: Gallimard, 1964).
From the publisher: A Very Easy Death has long been considered one of Simone de Beauvoir’s masterpieces. The profoundly moving, day-by-day recounting of her mother’s death “shows the… More

Adieux: A Farewell to Sartre

– Adieux: A Farewell to Sartre. Translated by Patrick O'Brian. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1986. English translation of La cérémonie des adieux (Paris: Gallimard, 1981).
From the publisher: Simone de Beauvoir’s account of the last ten years of Jean-Paul Sartre’s life provides a focus for understanding one of the greatest thinkers of the twentieth… More

Simone de Beauvoir: A Life of Freedom

– Ascher, Carol. Simone de Beauvoir: A Life of Freedom. Boston: Beacon Press, 1981.
From the publisher: Writer, intellectual adventurer, fighter for personal and political freedom, feminist, and intimate companion to Jean-Paul Sartre for over fifty years, Simone de… More

After the Second Sex: Conversations with Simone de Beauvoir

– Schwarzer, Alice. After the Second Sex: Conversations with Simone de Beauvoir, translated by Marianne Howarth. New York: Pantheon Books, 1984.
From the publisher: Conversations with Simone de Beauvoir by Alice Schwarzer. Simone de Beauvoir’s “The Second Sex” became the Bible of modern feminism, just as her life… More

Simone de Beauvoir: A Life, A Love Story

– Francis, Claude and Gontier, Fernande. Simone de Beauvoir: A Life, A Love Story, translated by L. Nesselson. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1987.
From the publisher: A novelist, philosopher and political activist, Simone de Beauvoir expressed her ideas with a passion and a power that inspired a generation of women to explore their… More

Simone de Beauvoir: A Critical View

– Winegarten, Renee. Simone de Beauvoir: A Critical View. New York: Berg, 1988.
From a review: The subtitle of this study gives fair warning of the demystifing spirit in which Simone de Beauvoir’s biography is to be approached in this text. It is therefore not… More

Simone de Beauvoir: A Biography

– Bair, Deirdre. Simone de Beauvoir: A Biography. New York: Summit Books, 1990.
From a review: This impressively researched biography by the author of Samuel Beckett is the most detailed account to date of the life and work of de Beauvoir (1908-1986). Based on many… More

Letters to Sartre

– Letters to Sartre. Translated and Edited by Quintin Hoare. London: Vintage, 1992. English translation of Lettres à Sartre (Paris: Gallimard, 1990).
From the publisher: Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre formed one of the most famous literary couples of the twentieth century. Their relationship took on the quality of legend and… More

Simone De Beauvoir: The Woman and Her Work

– Crosland, Margaret. Simone de Beauvoir: The Woman and Her Work. London: Heinemann, 1992.
From the publisher: From 1949, when she wrote “The Second Sex”, until her death in 1986, Simone de Beauvoir was at the centre of French intellectual life. This biography… More

Simone de Beauvoir: The Making of an Intellectual Woman

– Moi, Toril. Simone de Beauvoir: The Making of an Intellectual Woman. Oxford: Blackwell, 1994.
From the publisher: In Simone de Beauvoir: The Making of an Intellectual Woman, Toril Moi shows how Simone de Beauvoir became the leading feminist thinker and emblematic intellectual woman… More

A Transatlantic Love Affair: Letters to Nelson Algren

– A Transatlantic Love Affair: Letters to Nelson Algren. Compiled and annotated by Sylvie le Bon de Beauvoir. New York: The New Press, 1998.
From the publisher: In 1947, Simone de Beauvoir met Pulitzer Prize–winning writer Nelson Algren in Chicago, and it was love at first sight. A passionate affair ensued, spanning twenty… More

Simone de Beauvoir Writing the Self: Philosophy Becomes Autobiography

– Pilardi, Jo-Ann. Simone de Beauvoir Writing the Self: Philosophy Becomes Autobiography, Westport: Greenwood Press, 1999.
From the publisher: The development of Simone de Beauvoir’s notion of self in both her philosophical and autobiographical writings is analyzed in this volume. Two ideas of the self… More

Simone de Beauvoir and Jean Paul Sartre: Woman, Man and the Desire to be God

– Bergoffen, Debra. “Simone de Beauvoir and Jean Paul Sartre: Woman, Man and the Desire to be God”, Constellations,9 (3): 406–418, 2002.
Abstract: Beauvoir and Sartre share an existential vocabulary. Both invoke the categories of bad faith and the look, both describe consciousness as a transcendence and a freedom and both… More

Genre and Void: Looking Back at Sartre and Beauvoir

– Deutscher, Max. Genre and Void : Looking Back at Sartre and Beauvoir. Aldershot and Burlington: Ashgate, 2003.
From the publisher: Developing a reading of some of Beauvoir and Sartre’s most influential writings in philosophy, Max Deutscher explores contemporary philosophy in the light of the… More

Beauvoir & Sartre: The Riddle of Influence

– Daigle, Christine, and Golomb, Jacob (eds.). Beauvoir & Sartre: The Riddle of Influence. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2009.
From the publisher: While many scholars consider Simone de Beauvoir an important philosopher in her own right, thorny issues of mutual influence between her thought and that of Jean-Paul… More

Not Lost in Translation by Christina Hoff Sommers

– Hoff Sommers, Christina. “Not Lost in Translation.” Claremont Review of Books. December 8, 2010.
Excerpt: In 1949, Simone de Beauvoir, then 41 years old, created a sensation in Paris with her book The Second Sex. Women, she argued, are half the human race but in all places and times… More

Multimedia

America Day by Day

– America Day by Day. Translated by Carol Cosman. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990. English translation of L'Amérique au jour le jour (Paris: Gallimard, 1954).
From the publisher: Here is the ultimate American road book, one with a perspective unlike that of any other. In January 1947 Simone de Beauvoir landed at La Guardia airport and began a… More

The Long March

– The Long March. Translated by Austryn Wainhouse. New York: The World Publishing, 1958. English translation of La longue marche (Paris: Gallimard, 1957).
From the publisher: Beauvoir turns her attention eastward to China and paints a masterly picture of that nation in modern times. Honest and detailed, it comes from de Beauvoir’s… More

Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter

– Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter. Translated by James Kirkup. Middlesex: Penguin Books, 1963. English translation of Mémoires d'une jeune fille rangée (Paris: Gallimard, 1958).
From the publisher: 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… More

The Prime of Life: The Autobiography of Simone De Beauvoir

– The Prime of Life. Translated by Peter Green. New York: Lancer Books, 1966. English translation of La force de l'âge (Paris: Gallimard, 1960).
From the publisher: The author recalls her life in Paris in the formative years of 1929 to 1944, telling of her relationship with Jean-Paul Sartre and of Parisian intellectual life of the… More

A Very Easy Death

– A Very Easy Death. Translated by Patrick O'Brian. New York: Pantheon Books, 1965. English translation of Une mort très douce (Paris: Gallimard, 1964).
From the publisher: A Very Easy Death has long been considered one of Simone de Beauvoir’s masterpieces. The profoundly moving, day-by-day recounting of her mother’s death “shows the… More

Adieux: A Farewell to Sartre

– Adieux: A Farewell to Sartre. Translated by Patrick O'Brian. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1986. English translation of La cérémonie des adieux (Paris: Gallimard, 1981).
From the publisher: Simone de Beauvoir’s account of the last ten years of Jean-Paul Sartre’s life provides a focus for understanding one of the greatest thinkers of the twentieth… More

Simone de Beauvoir: A Life of Freedom

– Ascher, Carol. Simone de Beauvoir: A Life of Freedom. Boston: Beacon Press, 1981.
From the publisher: Writer, intellectual adventurer, fighter for personal and political freedom, feminist, and intimate companion to Jean-Paul Sartre for over fifty years, Simone de… More

After the Second Sex: Conversations with Simone de Beauvoir

– Schwarzer, Alice. After the Second Sex: Conversations with Simone de Beauvoir, translated by Marianne Howarth. New York: Pantheon Books, 1984.
From the publisher: Conversations with Simone de Beauvoir by Alice Schwarzer. Simone de Beauvoir’s “The Second Sex” became the Bible of modern feminism, just as her life… More

Simone de Beauvoir: A Life, A Love Story

– Francis, Claude and Gontier, Fernande. Simone de Beauvoir: A Life, A Love Story, translated by L. Nesselson. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1987.
From the publisher: A novelist, philosopher and political activist, Simone de Beauvoir expressed her ideas with a passion and a power that inspired a generation of women to explore their… More

Simone de Beauvoir: A Critical View

– Winegarten, Renee. Simone de Beauvoir: A Critical View. New York: Berg, 1988.
From a review: The subtitle of this study gives fair warning of the demystifing spirit in which Simone de Beauvoir’s biography is to be approached in this text. It is therefore not… More

Simone de Beauvoir: A Biography

– Bair, Deirdre. Simone de Beauvoir: A Biography. New York: Summit Books, 1990.
From a review: This impressively researched biography by the author of Samuel Beckett is the most detailed account to date of the life and work of de Beauvoir (1908-1986). Based on many… More

Letters to Sartre

– Letters to Sartre. Translated and Edited by Quintin Hoare. London: Vintage, 1992. English translation of Lettres à Sartre (Paris: Gallimard, 1990).
From the publisher: Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre formed one of the most famous literary couples of the twentieth century. Their relationship took on the quality of legend and… More

Simone De Beauvoir: The Woman and Her Work

– Crosland, Margaret. Simone de Beauvoir: The Woman and Her Work. London: Heinemann, 1992.
From the publisher: From 1949, when she wrote “The Second Sex”, until her death in 1986, Simone de Beauvoir was at the centre of French intellectual life. This biography… More

Simone de Beauvoir: The Making of an Intellectual Woman

– Moi, Toril. Simone de Beauvoir: The Making of an Intellectual Woman. Oxford: Blackwell, 1994.
From the publisher: In Simone de Beauvoir: The Making of an Intellectual Woman, Toril Moi shows how Simone de Beauvoir became the leading feminist thinker and emblematic intellectual woman… More

A Transatlantic Love Affair: Letters to Nelson Algren

– A Transatlantic Love Affair: Letters to Nelson Algren. Compiled and annotated by Sylvie le Bon de Beauvoir. New York: The New Press, 1998.
From the publisher: In 1947, Simone de Beauvoir met Pulitzer Prize–winning writer Nelson Algren in Chicago, and it was love at first sight. A passionate affair ensued, spanning twenty… More

Simone de Beauvoir Writing the Self: Philosophy Becomes Autobiography

– Pilardi, Jo-Ann. Simone de Beauvoir Writing the Self: Philosophy Becomes Autobiography, Westport: Greenwood Press, 1999.
From the publisher: The development of Simone de Beauvoir’s notion of self in both her philosophical and autobiographical writings is analyzed in this volume. Two ideas of the self… More

Simone de Beauvoir and Jean Paul Sartre: Woman, Man and the Desire to be God

– Bergoffen, Debra. “Simone de Beauvoir and Jean Paul Sartre: Woman, Man and the Desire to be God”, Constellations,9 (3): 406–418, 2002.
Abstract: Beauvoir and Sartre share an existential vocabulary. Both invoke the categories of bad faith and the look, both describe consciousness as a transcendence and a freedom and both… More

Genre and Void: Looking Back at Sartre and Beauvoir

– Deutscher, Max. Genre and Void : Looking Back at Sartre and Beauvoir. Aldershot and Burlington: Ashgate, 2003.
From the publisher: Developing a reading of some of Beauvoir and Sartre’s most influential writings in philosophy, Max Deutscher explores contemporary philosophy in the light of the… More

Beauvoir & Sartre: The Riddle of Influence

– Daigle, Christine, and Golomb, Jacob (eds.). Beauvoir & Sartre: The Riddle of Influence. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2009.
From the publisher: While many scholars consider Simone de Beauvoir an important philosopher in her own right, thorny issues of mutual influence between her thought and that of Jean-Paul… More

Not Lost in Translation by Christina Hoff Sommers

– Hoff Sommers, Christina. “Not Lost in Translation.” Claremont Review of Books. December 8, 2010.
Excerpt: In 1949, Simone de Beauvoir, then 41 years old, created a sensation in Paris with her book The Second Sex. Women, she argued, are half the human race but in all places and times… More

Teaching

America Day by Day

– America Day by Day. Translated by Carol Cosman. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990. English translation of L'Amérique au jour le jour (Paris: Gallimard, 1954).
From the publisher: Here is the ultimate American road book, one with a perspective unlike that of any other. In January 1947 Simone de Beauvoir landed at La Guardia airport and began a… More

The Long March

– The Long March. Translated by Austryn Wainhouse. New York: The World Publishing, 1958. English translation of La longue marche (Paris: Gallimard, 1957).
From the publisher: Beauvoir turns her attention eastward to China and paints a masterly picture of that nation in modern times. Honest and detailed, it comes from de Beauvoir’s… More

Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter

– Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter. Translated by James Kirkup. Middlesex: Penguin Books, 1963. English translation of Mémoires d'une jeune fille rangée (Paris: Gallimard, 1958).
From the publisher: 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… More

The Prime of Life: The Autobiography of Simone De Beauvoir

– The Prime of Life. Translated by Peter Green. New York: Lancer Books, 1966. English translation of La force de l'âge (Paris: Gallimard, 1960).
From the publisher: The author recalls her life in Paris in the formative years of 1929 to 1944, telling of her relationship with Jean-Paul Sartre and of Parisian intellectual life of the… More

A Very Easy Death

– A Very Easy Death. Translated by Patrick O'Brian. New York: Pantheon Books, 1965. English translation of Une mort très douce (Paris: Gallimard, 1964).
From the publisher: A Very Easy Death has long been considered one of Simone de Beauvoir’s masterpieces. The profoundly moving, day-by-day recounting of her mother’s death “shows the… More

Adieux: A Farewell to Sartre

– Adieux: A Farewell to Sartre. Translated by Patrick O'Brian. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1986. English translation of La cérémonie des adieux (Paris: Gallimard, 1981).
From the publisher: Simone de Beauvoir’s account of the last ten years of Jean-Paul Sartre’s life provides a focus for understanding one of the greatest thinkers of the twentieth… More

Simone de Beauvoir: A Life of Freedom

– Ascher, Carol. Simone de Beauvoir: A Life of Freedom. Boston: Beacon Press, 1981.
From the publisher: Writer, intellectual adventurer, fighter for personal and political freedom, feminist, and intimate companion to Jean-Paul Sartre for over fifty years, Simone de… More

After the Second Sex: Conversations with Simone de Beauvoir

– Schwarzer, Alice. After the Second Sex: Conversations with Simone de Beauvoir, translated by Marianne Howarth. New York: Pantheon Books, 1984.
From the publisher: Conversations with Simone de Beauvoir by Alice Schwarzer. Simone de Beauvoir’s “The Second Sex” became the Bible of modern feminism, just as her life… More

Simone de Beauvoir: A Life, A Love Story

– Francis, Claude and Gontier, Fernande. Simone de Beauvoir: A Life, A Love Story, translated by L. Nesselson. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1987.
From the publisher: A novelist, philosopher and political activist, Simone de Beauvoir expressed her ideas with a passion and a power that inspired a generation of women to explore their… More

Simone de Beauvoir: A Critical View

– Winegarten, Renee. Simone de Beauvoir: A Critical View. New York: Berg, 1988.
From a review: The subtitle of this study gives fair warning of the demystifing spirit in which Simone de Beauvoir’s biography is to be approached in this text. It is therefore not… More

Simone de Beauvoir: A Biography

– Bair, Deirdre. Simone de Beauvoir: A Biography. New York: Summit Books, 1990.
From a review: This impressively researched biography by the author of Samuel Beckett is the most detailed account to date of the life and work of de Beauvoir (1908-1986). Based on many… More

Letters to Sartre

– Letters to Sartre. Translated and Edited by Quintin Hoare. London: Vintage, 1992. English translation of Lettres à Sartre (Paris: Gallimard, 1990).
From the publisher: Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre formed one of the most famous literary couples of the twentieth century. Their relationship took on the quality of legend and… More

Simone De Beauvoir: The Woman and Her Work

– Crosland, Margaret. Simone de Beauvoir: The Woman and Her Work. London: Heinemann, 1992.
From the publisher: From 1949, when she wrote “The Second Sex”, until her death in 1986, Simone de Beauvoir was at the centre of French intellectual life. This biography… More

Simone de Beauvoir: The Making of an Intellectual Woman

– Moi, Toril. Simone de Beauvoir: The Making of an Intellectual Woman. Oxford: Blackwell, 1994.
From the publisher: In Simone de Beauvoir: The Making of an Intellectual Woman, Toril Moi shows how Simone de Beauvoir became the leading feminist thinker and emblematic intellectual woman… More

A Transatlantic Love Affair: Letters to Nelson Algren

– A Transatlantic Love Affair: Letters to Nelson Algren. Compiled and annotated by Sylvie le Bon de Beauvoir. New York: The New Press, 1998.
From the publisher: In 1947, Simone de Beauvoir met Pulitzer Prize–winning writer Nelson Algren in Chicago, and it was love at first sight. A passionate affair ensued, spanning twenty… More

Simone de Beauvoir Writing the Self: Philosophy Becomes Autobiography

– Pilardi, Jo-Ann. Simone de Beauvoir Writing the Self: Philosophy Becomes Autobiography, Westport: Greenwood Press, 1999.
From the publisher: The development of Simone de Beauvoir’s notion of self in both her philosophical and autobiographical writings is analyzed in this volume. Two ideas of the self… More

Simone de Beauvoir and Jean Paul Sartre: Woman, Man and the Desire to be God

– Bergoffen, Debra. “Simone de Beauvoir and Jean Paul Sartre: Woman, Man and the Desire to be God”, Constellations,9 (3): 406–418, 2002.
Abstract: Beauvoir and Sartre share an existential vocabulary. Both invoke the categories of bad faith and the look, both describe consciousness as a transcendence and a freedom and both… More

Genre and Void: Looking Back at Sartre and Beauvoir

– Deutscher, Max. Genre and Void : Looking Back at Sartre and Beauvoir. Aldershot and Burlington: Ashgate, 2003.
From the publisher: Developing a reading of some of Beauvoir and Sartre’s most influential writings in philosophy, Max Deutscher explores contemporary philosophy in the light of the… More

Beauvoir & Sartre: The Riddle of Influence

– Daigle, Christine, and Golomb, Jacob (eds.). Beauvoir & Sartre: The Riddle of Influence. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2009.
From the publisher: While many scholars consider Simone de Beauvoir an important philosopher in her own right, thorny issues of mutual influence between her thought and that of Jean-Paul… More

Not Lost in Translation by Christina Hoff Sommers

– Hoff Sommers, Christina. “Not Lost in Translation.” Claremont Review of Books. December 8, 2010.
Excerpt: In 1949, Simone de Beauvoir, then 41 years old, created a sensation in Paris with her book The Second Sex. Women, she argued, are half the human race but in all places and times… More