Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter
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| ISBN | 978-0-14-118533-0 |
|---|---|
| EAN | 9780141185330 |
| Publisher | Penguin Books |
| Year of publication | 2021 |
| Number of pages | 365 |
| Binding | Paperback |
| Dimensions | 198 x 128 x 24 mm |
| Weight | 268 g |
| Language | English |
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A superb autobiography by one of the great literary figures of the twentieth century, 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. Simone de Beavoir describes her early life, from her birth in Paris in 1908 to her student days at the Sorbonne, where she met Jean-Paul sartre - 'the dream-companion I had longed for since I was fifteen'.