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Sylvie Le Bon-de Beauvoir (French pronunciation: [silvi lə bɔ̃ də bovwaʁ] ⓘ) (born 17 January 1941) is the adopted daughter of Simone de Beauvoir. She is a philosophy professor . The meeting between the two women was recounted in the book Tout compte fait , which Simone de Beauvoir dedicated to Le Bon.
Sylvie Le Bon-de Beauvoir and Simone de Beauvoir met in the 1960s, when Beauvoir was in her fifties and Sylvie was a teenager. In 1980, Beauvoir, 72, legally adopted Sylvie, who was in her late thirties, by which point they had already been in an intimate relationship for decades.
It is named after the French author and philosopher Simone de Beauvoir, known for her 1949 women's rights treatise The Second Sex. [1] The prize was founded by Julia Kristeva on 9 January 2008, the 100th anniversary of de Beauvoir's birth. Sylvie Le Bon de Beauvoir and Pierre Bras are the head of the Simone de Beauvoir prize committee. [2]
"De Beauvoir has separated the book into two parts. The first half is a look from the outside in. How society and its citizens view old age, ranging from how families treat their elders to the views of old age by the philosophers and literary giants throughout the years.
The Mandarins (French: Les Mandarins) is a 1954 roman à clef by Simone de Beauvoir, for which she won the Prix Goncourt, awarded to the best and most imaginative prose work of the year, in 1954. The Mandarins was first published in English in 1956 (in a translation by Leonard M. Friedman).
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America Day by Day is a 1948 book by Simone de Beauvoir chronicling her trip by road across the United States of America over four months in 1947. [1] [2] It was published in French in 1948 with an English translation in 1953.
She Came to Stay (French, L'Invitée) [1] is a novel written by French author Simone de Beauvoir first published in 1943. The novel is a fictional account of her and Jean-Paul Sartre 's relationship with Olga Kosakiewicz and Wanda Kosakiewicz .