Simone Lucie Ernestine Marie Bertrand Beauvoir Books

Tussen 1947 en 1964 schreef Simone de Beauvoir 304 brieven aan Nelson Algren, de Amerikaanse auteur die ze bij toeval ontmoette en voor wie ze een grote hartstocht opvatte. Algren en zij zouden elkaar slechts vijfmaal treffen. De Beauvoirs openhartige liefdesbrieven geven tevens een prachtig beeld van het culturele milieu in Parijs, de ontwikkeling van haar wereldberoemde oeuvre, haar twijfels en haar angst voor de ouderdom.

In these writings, Simone de Beauvoir recounts her relationships and numerous travels with Jean-Paul Sartre, the evolving dynamics of Sartre's relationship with communism, her love affairs, particularly her liaison with American novelist Nelson Algren, and her friendships and conflicts with notable contemporaries such as Camus, Koestler, Giacometti, Merleau-Ponty, and Raymond Aron. This work serves as a fascinating document of the lives of European intellectuals in the 20th century.

This recently rediscovered novel is the compulsive story of two close friends growing up and falling apart. When Andrée joins her school, Sylvie is immediately fascinated. Andrée is small for her age, but walks with the confidence of an adult. Secretly Sylvie believes that Andrée is a prodigy about whom books will be written. The girls talk for hours about equality, justice, war and religion; they lose respect for their teachers; they build a world of their own. But they can't stay like this forever. Written in 1954, five years after The Second Sex, the novel was never published in Simone de Beauvoir's lifetime.

Jean Blomart, líder patriota contra as forças alemãs de ocupação, espera, durante uma noite que parece não ter fim, pela morte da sua amante, Helene. Fora ele que a enviara para a missão que levou à sua morte e, antes do amanhecer, terá de decidir quantos outros enviará para um destino semelhante.

In Een zachte dood schetst Simone de Beauvoir een volstrekt eerlijkt, niet-sentimenteel portret van haar eigen moeder als de gefrustreerde, heerszuchtige vertegenwoordigster van die typische Franse burgerij, waaraan ze zichzelf dankzij haar schrijverschap heeft weten te ontworstelen. Toch is het - in die oprechtheid - ook een zeer liefdevol portret van een vrouw die haar zeer na stond.

First published in 1967, this book consists of three short novellas on the theme of women's vulnerability - in the first, to the process of ageing, in the second to loneliness, and, in the third, to the growing indifference of a loved one.

Written as an act of revenge against the 17 year-old who came between her and Jean-Paul Sartre, She Came to Stay is Simone de Beauvoir's first novel - a lacerating study of a young, naive couple in love and the usurping woman who comes between them.