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Simone de Beauvoir published her short story, "The Woman Destroyed," in 1967. Like much existentialist literature, it is written in the first person, the story consisting of a series of diary entries written by Monique, a middle-aged woman whose husband is a hard-working doctor and whose two grown up daughters no longer live at home. At the ...
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From a review by Inna Uhlig of The Woman Destroyed by Simone de Beauvoir in The Baltimore Sun, March 23, 1969: In this English translation of La Femme Rompue, Simone de Beauvoir presents three novellas, or long short stories, that describe women over forty, each delving into her own unhappiness: The Age of Discretion In “The Age of Discretion,” the...
Though the reviewer above gives helpfully neat synopses of these stories, it’s evident that the she found the characters distasteful. Scanning recent reader reviews, contemporary readers find much in this book that resonates. On the book’s discussion page on Goodreads, one reader notes, “Reading The Woman Destroyed, I was reminded that all great wr...
“Tragedies are all right for a while: you are concerned, you are curious, you feel good. And then it gets repetitive, it doesn’t advance, it grows dreadfully boring: it is so very boring, even for me.” . . . . . . . . . . “My life was hurrying, racing tragically toward its end. And yet at the same time it was dripping so slowly, so very slowly now,...
THE WOMAN DESTROYED (La Femme rompue)by Simone de Beauvoir, 1968. Though Simone de Beauvoir has no doubt made her most lasting contribution to modern thought with her very influential study of the female condition, The Second Sex ( Le Deuxième Sexe ), and with her sequence of brilliant autobiographical writings, she also has to her credit a ...
„La femme rompue“, The Woman Destroyed, is written by one of the most controversial feminists, Simone de Beauvoir. The book was originally published in 1967. Simone de Beauvoir´s impeccable writing style full of wits and eloquence paired with my curiosity about the destiny of three women in the book kept me engaged from start to end.
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About The Woman Destroyed. One of the most influential thinkers of her generation draws us into the lives of three women, all past their first youth, all facing unexpected crises in these three “immensely intelligent stories about the decay of passion” (The Sunday Herald Times).
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9 de ene. de 2013 · The Woman Destroyed. Simone De Beauvoir. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Jan 9, 2013 - Fiction - 256 pages. One of the most influential thinkers of her generation draws us into the lives of...
Putnam, 1969 - French fiction - 254 pages. These three long stories draw us into the lives of three women, all past their first youth, all facing unexpected crises. In the title story, the...
