Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter - (Perennial Classics) by Simone De Beauvoir (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>This translation originally published: World Publishing Co., 1959.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><strong>"[Beauvoir's] graciously written memoirs carry distinct appeal in recording the emotional and intellectual birth pangs of a fascinating woman." </strong><strong>--<em>Time</em></strong></p><p>A superb autobiography by one of the great literary figures of the twentieth century, Simone de Beauvoir's <em>Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter</em> 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.</p><p>Beauvoir 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.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> From the Back Cover </b></p></br></br><p>A superb autobiography by one of the great literary figures of the twentieth century, <strong>Simone de Beauvoir</strong>'s <strong>Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter</strong> 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.</p><p>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.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"[Beauvoir's] graciously written memoirs carry distinct appeal in recording the emotional and intellectual birth pangs of a fascinating woman."--<strong><em>Time</em></strong><br><br>"It is a book that will leave no one indifferent, and no one affected in quite the same way."--<strong><em>New York Times</em></strong><br><br>"This excellent autobiography . . . of the bending of the twig is, in certain respects, more sympathetic than the later leafings of the tree; but the line between the child Simone and the woman of The Second Sex and The Mandarins is direct and clear."--<strong><em>Chicago Sunday Times</em></strong><br><br>"This is perhaps the best piece of writing Mlle. de Beauvoir has yet done; the translator does it justice."--<strong><em>Saturday Review</em></strong><br>
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