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Simone Lucie Ernestine Marie Bertrand de Beauvoir (UK: / d ə ˈ b oʊ v w ɑːr /, US: / d ə b oʊ ˈ v w ɑːr /; [2] [3] French: [simɔn də bovwaʁ] ⓘ; 9 January 1908 – 14 April 1986) was a French existentialist philosopher, writer, social theorist, and feminist activist.
Category: Works by Simone de Beauvoir. 11 languages. ... Books by Simone de Beauvoir (2 C, 3 P) E. Essays by Simone de Beauvoir ...
Pages in category "Books by Simone de Beauvoir" The following 3 pages are in this category, out of 3 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
The Second Sex (French: Le Deuxième Sexe) is a 1949 book by the French existentialist philosopher Simone de Beauvoir, in which the author discusses the treatment of women in the present society as well as throughout all of history.
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).
The Ethics of Ambiguity (French: Pour une morale de l'ambiguïté) is Simone de Beauvoir's second major non-fiction work. It was prompted by a lecture she gave in 1945, where she claimed that it was impossible to base an ethical system on her partner Jean-Paul Sartre's major philosophical work Being and Nothingness (French: L'Être et le néant).
Works by Simone de Beauvoir (2 C) Pages in category "Simone de Beauvoir" The following 13 pages are in this category, out of 13 total.
All Men Are Mortal (French: Tous les hommes sont mortels) is a 1946 novel by Simone de Beauvoir. It tells the story of Raimon Fosca, a man cursed to live forever. The first American edition of this work was published by The World Publishing Company. Cleveland and New York, 1955. It was adapted into a 1995 film of the same name.