Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter

Download or read book Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter written by Simone de Beauvoir and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2005-08-02 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A superb autobiography by one of the great literary figures of the twentieth century, Simone de Beauvoir's Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter offers an intimate picture of growing up in a bourgeois French family, rebelling as an adolescent against the conventional expectations of her class, and striking out on her own with an intellectual and existential ambition exceedingly rare in a young woman in the 1920s. She vividly evokes her friendships, love interests, mentors, and the early days of the most important relationship of her life, with fellow student Jean-Paul Sartre, against the backdrop of a turbulent political time.