Books

She Came to Stay

– She Came to Stay. Translated by Roger Senhouse and Yvonne Moyse. New York: W. W. Norton & Co.,1954. English translation of L'Invitée (Paris: Gallimard, 1943).

From the publisher: Set in Paris on the eve of World War II and sizzling with love, anger, and revenge, She Came to Stay explores the changes wrought in the soul of a woman and a city soon… More

The Blood of Others

– The Blood of Others. Translated by Roger Senhouse and Yvonne Moyse. New York: Pantheon Books, 1948. English translation of Le sang des autres (Paris: Gallimard, 1945).

Beauvoir examines the lives of different characters in pre-war Paris.

Who Shall Die?

– Who Shall Die? Translated by Claude Francis and Fernande Gontier. Florissant: River Press, 1983. English translation of Les bouches inutiles (Paris: Gallimard, 1945).

Beauvoir only wrote one play, Les Bouches Inutiles (Who Shall Die?) which was performed in 1945-the same year of the founding of Les Temps Modernes. Clearly enmeshed in the issues of World… More

The Mandarins

– The Mandarins. Translated by Leonard M. Friedman. New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 1991. English translation of Les mandarins (Paris: Gallimard, 1954).

From the publisher: In her most famous novel, The Mandarins, Simone de Beauvoir takes an unflinching look at Parisian intellectual society at the end of World War II. In fictionally… More

The Woman Destroyed

– The Woman Destroyed. Translated by Patrick O'Brian. New York: Pantheon Books, 1969. English translation of La femme rompue (Paris: Gallimard, 1967).

In three “immensely intelligent stories about the decay of passion” (The Sunday Herald Times), Simone de Beauvoir draws us into the lives of three women, all past their first youth, all… More

Simone de Beauvoir

– Cottrell, Robert D. Simone de Beauvoir. New York: F. Ungar, 1975.

From the publisher: Relates the French writer’s novels, four-volume autobiography, sociological studies, and other works to her life, the development of her thought, the history of… More

When Things of the Spirit Come First

– When Things of the Spirit Come First. Translated by Patrick O'Brian. New York: Pantheon Books, 1982. English translation of Quand prime le spirituel (Paris: Gallimard, 1979).

From the publisher: This is a collection of semi-autobiographical tales written when the author was only 30, before World War II. Each tale concerns a young woman struggling with the… More

The Novels of Simone de Beauvoir

– Fallaize, Elizabeth. The Novels of Simone de Beauvoir. London: Routledge, 1988.

From the publisher: This introduction to de Beauvoir’s works of fiction examines her choice of narrative strategies and interprets them both in relation to the sexual politics of… More

On de Beauvoir

– Scholz, Sally J. On de Beauvoir. Belmont: Wadsworth, 2000.

From the publisher: This brief text assists students in understanding De Beauvoir’s philosophy and thinking so that they can more fully engage in useful, intelligent class dialogue… More

Simone de Beauvoir’s Philosophy of Lived Experience: Literature and Metaphysics

– Holveck, Eleanore. Simone de Beauvoir's Philosophy of Lived Experience: Literature and Metaphysics. Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2002.

From the publisher: Simone de Beauvoir developed her philosophy of lived experience as she actually wrote fiction. Hence Beauvoir should be placed among major philosophical novelists of the… More

Simone de Beauvoir as Novelist

– Podhoretz, Norman. “Simone de Beauvoir as Novelist” in The Norman Podhoretz Reader: A Selection of His Writings from the 1950s through the 1990s. New York and London, Free Press, 2004.

From the publisher: Norman Podhoretz “is a thinker and writer and polemicist, a geopolitician and student of religious ideas, an autobiographer of genius, a man who reacts sharply to… More

The Legacy of Simone de Beauvoir by Emily Grosholz

– Grosholz, Emily. The Legacy of Simone de Beauvoir. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004.

From the publisher: This collection of new essays treats the historical, philosophical, and literary dimensions of Simone de Beauvoir’s thought, and celebrates the 50th anniversary of… More

Essays

She Came to Stay

– She Came to Stay. Translated by Roger Senhouse and Yvonne Moyse. New York: W. W. Norton & Co.,1954. English translation of L'Invitée (Paris: Gallimard, 1943).

From the publisher: Set in Paris on the eve of World War II and sizzling with love, anger, and revenge, She Came to Stay explores the changes wrought in the soul of a woman and a city soon… More

The Blood of Others

– The Blood of Others. Translated by Roger Senhouse and Yvonne Moyse. New York: Pantheon Books, 1948. English translation of Le sang des autres (Paris: Gallimard, 1945).

Beauvoir examines the lives of different characters in pre-war Paris.

Who Shall Die?

– Who Shall Die? Translated by Claude Francis and Fernande Gontier. Florissant: River Press, 1983. English translation of Les bouches inutiles (Paris: Gallimard, 1945).

Beauvoir only wrote one play, Les Bouches Inutiles (Who Shall Die?) which was performed in 1945-the same year of the founding of Les Temps Modernes. Clearly enmeshed in the issues of World… More

The Mandarins

– The Mandarins. Translated by Leonard M. Friedman. New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 1991. English translation of Les mandarins (Paris: Gallimard, 1954).

From the publisher: In her most famous novel, The Mandarins, Simone de Beauvoir takes an unflinching look at Parisian intellectual society at the end of World War II. In fictionally… More

The Woman Destroyed

– The Woman Destroyed. Translated by Patrick O'Brian. New York: Pantheon Books, 1969. English translation of La femme rompue (Paris: Gallimard, 1967).

In three “immensely intelligent stories about the decay of passion” (The Sunday Herald Times), Simone de Beauvoir draws us into the lives of three women, all past their first youth, all… More

Simone de Beauvoir

– Cottrell, Robert D. Simone de Beauvoir. New York: F. Ungar, 1975.

From the publisher: Relates the French writer’s novels, four-volume autobiography, sociological studies, and other works to her life, the development of her thought, the history of… More

When Things of the Spirit Come First

– When Things of the Spirit Come First. Translated by Patrick O'Brian. New York: Pantheon Books, 1982. English translation of Quand prime le spirituel (Paris: Gallimard, 1979).

From the publisher: This is a collection of semi-autobiographical tales written when the author was only 30, before World War II. Each tale concerns a young woman struggling with the… More

The Novels of Simone de Beauvoir

– Fallaize, Elizabeth. The Novels of Simone de Beauvoir. London: Routledge, 1988.

From the publisher: This introduction to de Beauvoir’s works of fiction examines her choice of narrative strategies and interprets them both in relation to the sexual politics of… More

On de Beauvoir

– Scholz, Sally J. On de Beauvoir. Belmont: Wadsworth, 2000.

From the publisher: This brief text assists students in understanding De Beauvoir’s philosophy and thinking so that they can more fully engage in useful, intelligent class dialogue… More

Simone de Beauvoir’s Philosophy of Lived Experience: Literature and Metaphysics

– Holveck, Eleanore. Simone de Beauvoir's Philosophy of Lived Experience: Literature and Metaphysics. Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2002.

From the publisher: Simone de Beauvoir developed her philosophy of lived experience as she actually wrote fiction. Hence Beauvoir should be placed among major philosophical novelists of the… More

Simone de Beauvoir as Novelist

– Podhoretz, Norman. “Simone de Beauvoir as Novelist” in The Norman Podhoretz Reader: A Selection of His Writings from the 1950s through the 1990s. New York and London, Free Press, 2004.

From the publisher: Norman Podhoretz “is a thinker and writer and polemicist, a geopolitician and student of religious ideas, an autobiographer of genius, a man who reacts sharply to… More

The Legacy of Simone de Beauvoir by Emily Grosholz

– Grosholz, Emily. The Legacy of Simone de Beauvoir. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004.

From the publisher: This collection of new essays treats the historical, philosophical, and literary dimensions of Simone de Beauvoir’s thought, and celebrates the 50th anniversary of… More

Commentary

She Came to Stay

– She Came to Stay. Translated by Roger Senhouse and Yvonne Moyse. New York: W. W. Norton & Co.,1954. English translation of L'Invitée (Paris: Gallimard, 1943).

From the publisher: Set in Paris on the eve of World War II and sizzling with love, anger, and revenge, She Came to Stay explores the changes wrought in the soul of a woman and a city soon… More

The Blood of Others

– The Blood of Others. Translated by Roger Senhouse and Yvonne Moyse. New York: Pantheon Books, 1948. English translation of Le sang des autres (Paris: Gallimard, 1945).

Beauvoir examines the lives of different characters in pre-war Paris.

Who Shall Die?

– Who Shall Die? Translated by Claude Francis and Fernande Gontier. Florissant: River Press, 1983. English translation of Les bouches inutiles (Paris: Gallimard, 1945).

Beauvoir only wrote one play, Les Bouches Inutiles (Who Shall Die?) which was performed in 1945-the same year of the founding of Les Temps Modernes. Clearly enmeshed in the issues of World… More

The Mandarins

– The Mandarins. Translated by Leonard M. Friedman. New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 1991. English translation of Les mandarins (Paris: Gallimard, 1954).

From the publisher: In her most famous novel, The Mandarins, Simone de Beauvoir takes an unflinching look at Parisian intellectual society at the end of World War II. In fictionally… More

The Woman Destroyed

– The Woman Destroyed. Translated by Patrick O'Brian. New York: Pantheon Books, 1969. English translation of La femme rompue (Paris: Gallimard, 1967).

In three “immensely intelligent stories about the decay of passion” (The Sunday Herald Times), Simone de Beauvoir draws us into the lives of three women, all past their first youth, all… More

Simone de Beauvoir

– Cottrell, Robert D. Simone de Beauvoir. New York: F. Ungar, 1975.

From the publisher: Relates the French writer’s novels, four-volume autobiography, sociological studies, and other works to her life, the development of her thought, the history of… More

When Things of the Spirit Come First

– When Things of the Spirit Come First. Translated by Patrick O'Brian. New York: Pantheon Books, 1982. English translation of Quand prime le spirituel (Paris: Gallimard, 1979).

From the publisher: This is a collection of semi-autobiographical tales written when the author was only 30, before World War II. Each tale concerns a young woman struggling with the… More

The Novels of Simone de Beauvoir

– Fallaize, Elizabeth. The Novels of Simone de Beauvoir. London: Routledge, 1988.

From the publisher: This introduction to de Beauvoir’s works of fiction examines her choice of narrative strategies and interprets them both in relation to the sexual politics of… More

On de Beauvoir

– Scholz, Sally J. On de Beauvoir. Belmont: Wadsworth, 2000.

From the publisher: This brief text assists students in understanding De Beauvoir’s philosophy and thinking so that they can more fully engage in useful, intelligent class dialogue… More

Simone de Beauvoir’s Philosophy of Lived Experience: Literature and Metaphysics

– Holveck, Eleanore. Simone de Beauvoir's Philosophy of Lived Experience: Literature and Metaphysics. Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2002.

From the publisher: Simone de Beauvoir developed her philosophy of lived experience as she actually wrote fiction. Hence Beauvoir should be placed among major philosophical novelists of the… More

Simone de Beauvoir as Novelist

– Podhoretz, Norman. “Simone de Beauvoir as Novelist” in The Norman Podhoretz Reader: A Selection of His Writings from the 1950s through the 1990s. New York and London, Free Press, 2004.

From the publisher: Norman Podhoretz “is a thinker and writer and polemicist, a geopolitician and student of religious ideas, an autobiographer of genius, a man who reacts sharply to… More

The Legacy of Simone de Beauvoir by Emily Grosholz

– Grosholz, Emily. The Legacy of Simone de Beauvoir. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004.

From the publisher: This collection of new essays treats the historical, philosophical, and literary dimensions of Simone de Beauvoir’s thought, and celebrates the 50th anniversary of… More

Multimedia

She Came to Stay

– She Came to Stay. Translated by Roger Senhouse and Yvonne Moyse. New York: W. W. Norton & Co.,1954. English translation of L'Invitée (Paris: Gallimard, 1943).

From the publisher: Set in Paris on the eve of World War II and sizzling with love, anger, and revenge, She Came to Stay explores the changes wrought in the soul of a woman and a city soon… More

The Blood of Others

– The Blood of Others. Translated by Roger Senhouse and Yvonne Moyse. New York: Pantheon Books, 1948. English translation of Le sang des autres (Paris: Gallimard, 1945).

Beauvoir examines the lives of different characters in pre-war Paris.

Who Shall Die?

– Who Shall Die? Translated by Claude Francis and Fernande Gontier. Florissant: River Press, 1983. English translation of Les bouches inutiles (Paris: Gallimard, 1945).

Beauvoir only wrote one play, Les Bouches Inutiles (Who Shall Die?) which was performed in 1945-the same year of the founding of Les Temps Modernes. Clearly enmeshed in the issues of World… More

The Mandarins

– The Mandarins. Translated by Leonard M. Friedman. New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 1991. English translation of Les mandarins (Paris: Gallimard, 1954).

From the publisher: In her most famous novel, The Mandarins, Simone de Beauvoir takes an unflinching look at Parisian intellectual society at the end of World War II. In fictionally… More

The Woman Destroyed

– The Woman Destroyed. Translated by Patrick O'Brian. New York: Pantheon Books, 1969. English translation of La femme rompue (Paris: Gallimard, 1967).

In three “immensely intelligent stories about the decay of passion” (The Sunday Herald Times), Simone de Beauvoir draws us into the lives of three women, all past their first youth, all… More

Simone de Beauvoir

– Cottrell, Robert D. Simone de Beauvoir. New York: F. Ungar, 1975.

From the publisher: Relates the French writer’s novels, four-volume autobiography, sociological studies, and other works to her life, the development of her thought, the history of… More

When Things of the Spirit Come First

– When Things of the Spirit Come First. Translated by Patrick O'Brian. New York: Pantheon Books, 1982. English translation of Quand prime le spirituel (Paris: Gallimard, 1979).

From the publisher: This is a collection of semi-autobiographical tales written when the author was only 30, before World War II. Each tale concerns a young woman struggling with the… More

The Novels of Simone de Beauvoir

– Fallaize, Elizabeth. The Novels of Simone de Beauvoir. London: Routledge, 1988.

From the publisher: This introduction to de Beauvoir’s works of fiction examines her choice of narrative strategies and interprets them both in relation to the sexual politics of… More

On de Beauvoir

– Scholz, Sally J. On de Beauvoir. Belmont: Wadsworth, 2000.

From the publisher: This brief text assists students in understanding De Beauvoir’s philosophy and thinking so that they can more fully engage in useful, intelligent class dialogue… More

Simone de Beauvoir’s Philosophy of Lived Experience: Literature and Metaphysics

– Holveck, Eleanore. Simone de Beauvoir's Philosophy of Lived Experience: Literature and Metaphysics. Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2002.

From the publisher: Simone de Beauvoir developed her philosophy of lived experience as she actually wrote fiction. Hence Beauvoir should be placed among major philosophical novelists of the… More

Simone de Beauvoir as Novelist

– Podhoretz, Norman. “Simone de Beauvoir as Novelist” in The Norman Podhoretz Reader: A Selection of His Writings from the 1950s through the 1990s. New York and London, Free Press, 2004.

From the publisher: Norman Podhoretz “is a thinker and writer and polemicist, a geopolitician and student of religious ideas, an autobiographer of genius, a man who reacts sharply to… More

The Legacy of Simone de Beauvoir by Emily Grosholz

– Grosholz, Emily. The Legacy of Simone de Beauvoir. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004.

From the publisher: This collection of new essays treats the historical, philosophical, and literary dimensions of Simone de Beauvoir’s thought, and celebrates the 50th anniversary of… More

Teaching

She Came to Stay

– She Came to Stay. Translated by Roger Senhouse and Yvonne Moyse. New York: W. W. Norton & Co.,1954. English translation of L'Invitée (Paris: Gallimard, 1943).

From the publisher: Set in Paris on the eve of World War II and sizzling with love, anger, and revenge, She Came to Stay explores the changes wrought in the soul of a woman and a city soon… More

The Blood of Others

– The Blood of Others. Translated by Roger Senhouse and Yvonne Moyse. New York: Pantheon Books, 1948. English translation of Le sang des autres (Paris: Gallimard, 1945).

Beauvoir examines the lives of different characters in pre-war Paris.

Who Shall Die?

– Who Shall Die? Translated by Claude Francis and Fernande Gontier. Florissant: River Press, 1983. English translation of Les bouches inutiles (Paris: Gallimard, 1945).

Beauvoir only wrote one play, Les Bouches Inutiles (Who Shall Die?) which was performed in 1945-the same year of the founding of Les Temps Modernes. Clearly enmeshed in the issues of World… More

The Mandarins

– The Mandarins. Translated by Leonard M. Friedman. New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 1991. English translation of Les mandarins (Paris: Gallimard, 1954).

From the publisher: In her most famous novel, The Mandarins, Simone de Beauvoir takes an unflinching look at Parisian intellectual society at the end of World War II. In fictionally… More

The Woman Destroyed

– The Woman Destroyed. Translated by Patrick O'Brian. New York: Pantheon Books, 1969. English translation of La femme rompue (Paris: Gallimard, 1967).

In three “immensely intelligent stories about the decay of passion” (The Sunday Herald Times), Simone de Beauvoir draws us into the lives of three women, all past their first youth, all… More

Simone de Beauvoir

– Cottrell, Robert D. Simone de Beauvoir. New York: F. Ungar, 1975.

From the publisher: Relates the French writer’s novels, four-volume autobiography, sociological studies, and other works to her life, the development of her thought, the history of… More

When Things of the Spirit Come First

– When Things of the Spirit Come First. Translated by Patrick O'Brian. New York: Pantheon Books, 1982. English translation of Quand prime le spirituel (Paris: Gallimard, 1979).

From the publisher: This is a collection of semi-autobiographical tales written when the author was only 30, before World War II. Each tale concerns a young woman struggling with the… More

The Novels of Simone de Beauvoir

– Fallaize, Elizabeth. The Novels of Simone de Beauvoir. London: Routledge, 1988.

From the publisher: This introduction to de Beauvoir’s works of fiction examines her choice of narrative strategies and interprets them both in relation to the sexual politics of… More

On de Beauvoir

– Scholz, Sally J. On de Beauvoir. Belmont: Wadsworth, 2000.

From the publisher: This brief text assists students in understanding De Beauvoir’s philosophy and thinking so that they can more fully engage in useful, intelligent class dialogue… More

Simone de Beauvoir’s Philosophy of Lived Experience: Literature and Metaphysics

– Holveck, Eleanore. Simone de Beauvoir's Philosophy of Lived Experience: Literature and Metaphysics. Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2002.

From the publisher: Simone de Beauvoir developed her philosophy of lived experience as she actually wrote fiction. Hence Beauvoir should be placed among major philosophical novelists of the… More

Simone de Beauvoir as Novelist

– Podhoretz, Norman. “Simone de Beauvoir as Novelist” in The Norman Podhoretz Reader: A Selection of His Writings from the 1950s through the 1990s. New York and London, Free Press, 2004.

From the publisher: Norman Podhoretz “is a thinker and writer and polemicist, a geopolitician and student of religious ideas, an autobiographer of genius, a man who reacts sharply to… More

The Legacy of Simone de Beauvoir by Emily Grosholz

– Grosholz, Emily. The Legacy of Simone de Beauvoir. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004.

From the publisher: This collection of new essays treats the historical, philosophical, and literary dimensions of Simone de Beauvoir’s thought, and celebrates the 50th anniversary of… More