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"The Power of Conditions" is an intimate account of the period during which Simone de Beauvoir lived with Jean-Paul Sartre and wrote her greatest literary successes, "The Second Sex" and "The Mandarins." The personalities and ideas of leading European artists such as Genet, Leduc, Moravia, Giacometti, Koestler, and Aron come together in these pages, shedding new light on the debate between Sartre and Camus. This book also tells the story of Beauvoir's fearless commitment to the Algerian liberation struggle, alongside events like the Berlin air raids, Vietnam, and Suez, as well as her visit to Cuba during the spring of revolution. However, it is also of great significance for its unique insight into the author's most personal issues and the topics that preoccupied her mind—her fame arriving in middle age, her romantic adventure with Nelson Algren, and her extraordinary relationship with Sartre, which she referred to as "the only indisputable success of my life," along with her reflections on life and death concerning herself and her friends.
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La Force Des Choses II, Simone Beauvoir
- Lingua
- Pubblicato
- 1972
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- Titolo
- La Force Des Choses II
- Lingua
- Inglese
- Autori
- Simone Beauvoir
- Editore
- Gallimard Education
- Pubblicato
- 1972
- Formato
- In brossura
- Pagine
- 507
- ISBN13
- 9782070367658
- Serie
- Tag
- Saggistica, Scienze sociali, Storie vere, Biografie, Tematica filosofica, Filosofia, Autobiografie e memorie, Francia, Letteratura francese
- Valutazione
- 4,2 su 5
- Descrizione
- "The Power of Conditions" is an intimate account of the period during which Simone de Beauvoir lived with Jean-Paul Sartre and wrote her greatest literary successes, "The Second Sex" and "The Mandarins." The personalities and ideas of leading European artists such as Genet, Leduc, Moravia, Giacometti, Koestler, and Aron come together in these pages, shedding new light on the debate between Sartre and Camus. This book also tells the story of Beauvoir's fearless commitment to the Algerian liberation struggle, alongside events like the Berlin air raids, Vietnam, and Suez, as well as her visit to Cuba during the spring of revolution. However, it is also of great significance for its unique insight into the author's most personal issues and the topics that preoccupied her mind—her fame arriving in middle age, her romantic adventure with Nelson Algren, and her extraordinary relationship with Sartre, which she referred to as "the only indisputable success of my life," along with her reflections on life and death concerning herself and her friends.