All Men are Mortal
He becomes thoroughly attached to her and confides a terrifying truth: he is immortal. But having been resuscitated into enjoying life again, he soon starts breaking free from her grasp and all notions of mortality.
America Day By Day
In 1947 Simone de Beauvoir took a road trip across America.She travelled from coast to coast, from New York to Hollywood, taking in New Mexico, Texas, Louisiana and Washington DC. She rode a pony through the Grand Canyon, listened to jazz in New Orleans and visited the nightclubs of Chicago. And she captured the entire experience in her journal.This captivating book is that journal and an immersive portrait of postwar America. Beauvoir was disturbed by the poverty and segregation she encountered and at the same time delighted by American energy and friendliness.Intimate, warm, and compulsively readable, this is travel writing from the iconic feminist and thinker, Simone de Beauvoir.On New York: 'I walk between the steep cliffs at the bottom of a canyon where no sun penetrates: it's permeated by a salt smell. Human history is not inscribed on these carefully calibrated buildings: They are closer to prehistoric caves than to the houses of Paris or Rome.'On Los Angeles: 'I watch the Mexican dances and eat chilli con carne, which takes the roof off my mouth, I drink the tequila and I'm utterly dazed with pleasure.'
Inseparables
When Andrée joins her school, Sylvie is immediately fascinated. Andrée is small for her age but walks with the confidence of an adult. The girls become close. They talk for hours about equality, justice, war and religion; they lose respect for the...
Blood of Others
Potent and vividly emotional, Simone de Beauvoir's captivating novel questions freedom and individual responsibility in the face of brutality 'These carefree faces, on which we allowed our smiles to spread, were for others the mask of tragedy.' Je...
What Is Existentialism?
'It is possible for man to snatch the world from the darkness of absurdity' How should we think and act in the world? These writings on the human condition by one of the twentieth century's great philosophers explore the absurdity of our notions o...
Misunderstanding In Moscow
A captivating novella by one of the most important thinkers, writers and feminists of the twentieth century, Simone de Beauvoir.Nicole and Andre, a retired French couple, take a summer holiday to Russia. It is the 1960s and Russia is a beautiful, complicated place. Their guide is Macha, Andre's daughter from a previous relationship - a woman they both love. Adventure, inspiration, good food and good vodka are promised.Once thrilled by their romance, Nicole and Andre have now become too used to each other. Both harbour a growing feeling of not being fully understood - of being alone. Father and daughter engage in the grand debates of East-West relations, nationalism and socialism. But getting older, long-term relationships and how to enjoy life turn out to be the more pressing issues.
Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter
'A book that will leave no one indifferent, and no one affected in quite the same way.' --New York Times 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. Beauvoir 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.
Inseparables
When Andrée joins her school, Sylvie is immediately fascinated. Andrée is small for her age but walks with the confidence of an adult. The girls become close. They talk for hours about equality, justice, war and religion; they lose respect for the...
The Woman Destroyed
One of the most influential thinkers of her generation draws us into the lives of three women, all past their first youth, all facing unexpected crises in these three 'immensely intelligent stories about the decay of passion' (The Sunday Herald Times). Suffused with de Beauvoir's remarkable insights into women, The Woman Destroyed gives us a legendary writer at her best. Includes 'The Age of Discretion,' 'The Monologue,' and 'The Woman Destroyed.' 'Witty, immensely adroit...These three women are believable individuals presented with a wry mixture of sympathy and exasperation.' --The Atlantic
Coming of Age
As the definitive study of the universal problem of growing old, The Coming of Age is "a brilliant achievement" (Marc Slonin, New York Times).
All Men Are Mortal
This extraordinary novel, considered by many to be one of the finest examples of Simone de Beauvoir's imaginative writing, tells the story of a man doomed to immortality.
She Came to Stay
Set in Paris on the eve of World War II and sizzling with love, anger, and revenge, She Came to Stay explores the changes wrought in the soul of a woman and a city soon to fall. Although Francoise considers her relationship with Pierre an open one, she falls prey to jealousy when the gamine Xaviere catches his attention. The moody young woman from the countryside pries her way between Francoise and Pierre, playing up to each one and deviously pulling them apart, until the only way out of the triangle is destruction. 'Behind the sympathy there is curiosity. . . . A writer whose tears for her characters freeze as they drop.' Sunday London Times'
Une Mort Tres Douce
Includes the full French text, accompanied by French-English vocabulary. Notes and a detailed introduction in English put the work in its social and historical context.
She Came to Stay
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 the...
Le Deuxième Sexe 1
Le deuxieme sexe. Tome 1
The Image Of Her
She's living a perfect life - so why does Laurence feel so torn?Weekends in the country, weekdays in Paris - Laurence's life features all the trappings of 1960s French bourgeoisie. She has money, a handsome husband, two daughters and a lover. She also has a successful career as an advertising copywriter, though her mind writes copy while she's at home, and dreams of domesticity in the office.All her life she has strived to meet the expectations of others. But when her 10-year-old daughter, Catherine, starts to vocalise her despair about the unfairness of the world, Laurence must finally grapple with a life that prizes image over truth.Slim but powerful, this is a classic story of womanhood and its oppressors, parents and their children, and the quest for personal truth - by the iconic feminist Simone de Beauvoir.TRANSLATED BY LAUREN ELKINPraise for The Inseparables:'Passionate and tragic' Vanity Fair'A ravishing work of art' Financial Times'Slim, elegant, achingly tragic and unaffectedly lovely in its evocation of the closeness between girls - and the pressures that sunder them' Spectator'In Lauren Elkin's fine translation, the lucid, sculpted prose can flare into starbursts of introspective sensuality... Beauvoir could write like a dutiful daughter of the French classics' The Times
Marcelle
Simone de Beauvoir är kanske mest berömd för verket Det andra könet , en av de största klassikerna inom feministisk teoribildning. Men hennes författarskap innehåller inte bara filosofiska texter, utan även romaner och noveller. Hennes först...
Brigitte Bardot & Lolitasyndromet - Essäer
Brigitte Bardot och Lolitasyndromet. Essäer består av en samling essäer Simone de Beauvoir skrev mellan 1944 och 1959, som inte tidigare varit tillgängliga på svenska. I dem utforskar hon bland annat Brigitte Bardot som ett provokativt löfte om kvinnlig frigörelse, hur Marquis de Sades litteratur förvånande nog kan betraktas som en etik, och hur vi kan förstå relationen mellan filosofi och litteratur. Bokens syfte är inte minst att framhålla Beauvoir som en tänkare i egen rätt, och bidra till att ge henne den plats i vår filosofiska kanon som hon förtjänar.I översättning och med efterord av Anna Petronella Fredlund.Beauvoirs strävan var att röra vid världen, att fånga livets skiftande storslagenhet och existensens singularitet [...]. Därför skrev hon metafysiska romaner, dramatiska essäer, filosofiska skådespel, vid sidan av det fenomenologiskt-politiska verk som sannerligen kom att forma den kommande världen. [...] Det är också i det avseendet jag tror att Beauvoirs tänkande kommer att få betydelse i framtiden: en filosofi som också kan vara litteratur, där stil och tanke inte kan skiljas åt.Ur Anna Patronella Fredlunds efterord.SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR [1908-1986] var en fransk filosof, politisk aktivist, feminist och samhällsteoretiker. Hon skrev filosofiska och politiska monografier, romaner - varav Mandarinerna [1954] är mest känd i Sverige - essäer och en självbiografi i flera volymer. Störst inflytande har hon haft genom Det andra könet från 1949, en detaljerad analys av kvinnans underordning som blivit ett av den moderna feminismens fundament.
Letters To Sartre
In 1983 de Beauvoir published Sartre's letters, maintaining that her own to him had been lost. They were found by de Beauvoir's adopted daughter, and published to a storm of controversy in France. Tracing the emotional and triangular complications...
Second Sex
'One is not born, but rather becomes, woman' First published in Paris in 1949, The Second Sex by Simone de Beavoir was a groundbreaking, risqué book that became a runaway success. Selling 20,000 copies in its first week, the book earned its author...
The Mandarins
In her most famous novel, The Mandarins, Simone de Beauvoir takes an unflinching look at Parisian intellectual society at the end of World War II. In fictionally relating the stories of those around her - Jean-Paul Sartre, Albert Camus, Arthur Koe...
För en tvetydighetens moral
För en tvetydighetens moral, som nu återutges på svenska, skrevs innan författaren och filosofen Simone de Beauvoir hade blivit känd som feminist och speglar det intresse för moralfrågor och etik hon hade haft ända sedan sin studietid. Boken, som ...
Le Deuxième Sexe 2
Le Deuxieme Sexe. Tome 2
La femme rompue/Monologue/L'age de discretion
La femme rompue/Monologue/L'age de discretion
Mandarins
A Harper Perennial Modern Classics reissue of this unflinching examination of post-war French intellectual life, and an amazing chronicle of love, philosophy and politics from one of the most important thinkers of the twentieth century. An epic ro...
Misstag I Moskva
Misstag i Moskva är berättelsen om ett gift par som beger sig till Moskva för att besöka makens dotter från ett tidigare äktenskap och där upplever en kris i sin relation. Mot bakgrund av kalla kriget, med korta glimtar från sextiotalets Sovjet, utspelar sig en lågmäld historia mellan de två makarna. Det är första gången texten ges ut i svensk översättning. Sagt om boken Det är en pärla till relationstragedi [...] en fantastisk novell /DN En underbar långnovell.! [...] Vilken läsglädje! /författaren Åsa Moberg Boije En elegant liten roman om relationer, politik och åldrande. /GP En sensationellt bra roman av Simone de Beauvoir! /Bloggaren Bernur Långnovellen är tät men lätt, och ganska underbar. /Nöjseguiden Om författaren Simone de Beauvoir (1908-1986), var en fransk författare och intellektuell. Tillsammans med sin livskamrat Jean-Paul Sartre var hon en av den franska existentialismens viktigaste företrädare. Hon skrev romaner, essäer, biografier, en självbiografi samt monografier om filosofi, politik och sociala frågor. Simone de Beauvoir är mest känd för sina romaner, däribland Andra blod och Mandarinerna, liksom för sitt stora verk om kvinnans situation, Det andra könet från 1949, en klassiker inom feministisk teoribildning. Om uppläsaren Louise Raeder är skådespelerska och sångerska och har medverkat i ett flertal filmer, bland annat Lasse Hallströms Barnen i Bullerbyn, Ronja Rövardotter och TV-serier som Goda grannar samt i teaterproduktioner. Louise har läst in bla Sommarhuset av Anna Fredriksson och På fri fot av Alice Munro för A Nice Noise.
Very Easy Death
Long considered one of Simone de Beauvoir's masterpieces, A Very Easy Death is a profoundly affecting, day-by-day recounting of her mother's final days after she is hospitalized following a fall. Though a devout Catholic, her faith is subsumed by ...
Mémoires d'une jeune fille rangée
Memoires d'une jeune fille rangee
The Second Sex
The essential masterwork that has provoked and inspired generations of men and women. 'From Eve's apple to Virginia Woolf's room of her own, Beauvoir's treatise remains an essential rallying point, urging self-sufficiency and offering the fruit of knowledge.' --Vogue This unabridged edition reinstates significant portions of the original French text that were cut in the first English translation. Vital and groundbreaking, Beauvoir's pioneering and impressive text remains as pertinent today as when it was first published, and will continue to provoke and inspire generations of men and women to come.
Les inséparables suivi de Malentendu à Moscou
Les inséparables suivi de Malentendu à Moscou