- Continental european fiction (fictional works by one author), France, fiction, Fiction, general, Women
An ironic tale of life and love in the French intellectual class.
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Prestige, classical in form, cool and character-led.
- unpretentiousprestige
- classical in formformally daring
- cooloverwhelming
- character-ledplot-driven
- contemplativerelentless
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About the book
- Author
- Simone de Beauvoir
- First published
- September 1979
- Pages
- 610
- Publisher
- World Publishing, Collins, W W Norton & Co Inc
- Editions
- 62
- Language
- Chinese, German, French, und
- ISBN
- 9789953890999
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“HENRI found himself looking at the sky again-a clear, black crystal dome overhead.”
French philosopher, novelist, and essayist, the lifelong companion of [Jean-Paul Sartre][1] and vice versa. Beauvoir's two volume treatise [Le deuxième sexe][2] (1949, The Second Sex) is among the most widely read feminist works. ([Source][3].) [1]: https://openlibrary.org/a/OL896456A/Jean-Paul_Sartre [2]: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL767937W/Le_deuxie%CC%80me_sexe [3]: http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/beauvoir.htm
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