New Releases by Simone De Beauvoir

A searing denunciation of French torture in Algeria by a classic feminist intellect In 1960, as the Algerian War for Independence entered its sixth year, 22-year-old Djamila Boupacha was arrested for allegedly planting a bomb in a university cafeteria. While in custody, she was tortured and raped by French soldiers. Her case would have been buried like countless others had it not been for the efforts of her lawyer, Gisèle Halimi, and the philosopher Simone de Beauvoir to transform it into an international cause célèbre. Djamila Boupacha is the culmination of this campaign to expose the systemic violence of colonial rule. “To protest in the name of morality against ‘excesses’ or ‘abuses,’” Beauvoir writes, “is an error which hints at active complicity. There are no ‘abuses’ or ‘excesses’ here, simply an all-pervasive system.” More than a historical document, the book is a profound exploration of morality, complicity and resistance. A classic text of anticolonialism, this is a story that demands to be read—and remembered.

Memórias de uma moça bem-comportada é uma esplêndida autobiografia de uma das maiores escritoras do século XX, Simone de Beauvoir. Dona de um espírito inconformado e autêntico, Simone nos mostra sua infância religiosa numa família de classe média parisiense, a adolescência rebelde e a posterior devoção à literatura. Ela evoca vividamente suas amizades, seus interesses amorosos, seus mentores e o início da duradoura relação com o escritor e filósofo existencialista Jean-Paul Sartre. Memórias incríveis, numa obra essencial para quem deseja conhecer um pouco mais a vida de um dos principais ícones do feminismo até hoje. Esta edição conta com o prefácio de Lilia Moritz Schwarcz, escritora, professora e imortal da Academia Brasileira de Letras. -- "Simone de Beauvoir, em suas memórias, nos dá a conhecer sua vida e sua obra. Quatro volumes foram publicados entre 1958 e 1972: Memórias de uma moça bem-comportada, A força da idade, A força das coisas e Balanço final. A estes, se uniu a narrativa Uma morte muito suave, de 1964." - Trecho extraído do texto introdutório presente na edição.

Simone de Beauvoirs sakliga, tankeväckande och roliga uppgörelse med manssamhällets alla myter om kvinnan utkom 1949. Idag har hennes bok om kampen för kvinnans frigörelse och likaberättigande blivit en efterfrågad klassiker, en ständig inspirationskälla för den moderna feminismen och för alla som reflekterar över frågor om kön och könsskillnaderDenna utgåva presenterar den oavkortade texten på svenska. Den nya, fullständiga översättningen är frukten av ett intensivt samarbete mellan översättarna Adam Inczèdy-Gombos och Åsa Moberg och fackgranskaren Eva Gothlin, internationellt erkänd expert på Beauvoirs tankevärld, som också skrivit ett belysande förord. [Bokinfo].

«Så nå er det avskjedsseremoni?» sa Sartre, da vi tok farvel for en måned på begynnelsen av sommeren. Jeg ante allerede hvilken betydning disse ordene en gang kom til å få. Sereu00admonien varte i ti år, og det er disse ti årene jeg forteller om i denne boka.

Os adversários do existencialismo afirmam que uma filosofia da liberdade é, «a priori», incapaz de propor uma moral. Na medida em que somos livres, dizem eles, somos livres de desejar o que bem entendermos. Simone de Beauvoir propôs-se, por isso, avançar alguns princípios teóricos que validassem a possibilidade de uma moral existencialista, tarefa que Jean-Paul Sartre deixou por realizar.

A captivating novella about long-term relationships, getting older and how to live a good life, by the great Simone de Beauvoir. Nicole and André, 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, André''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 André 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.

Traducere şi note de Marieva Ionescu și Elena Ciocoiu (vol. I), Iuliana Glăvan și Cristina Balinte (vol. II) Interzisă în Spania lui Franco, inclusă pe lista neagră a Vaticanului (Index Librorum Prohibitorum) alături de alte lucrări socotite dăunătoare sau eretice, introdusă de ziarul Le Monde pe lista celor o sută de cărți fundamentale ale secolului XX, Al doilea sex nu lasă pe nimeni indiferent. „Receptarea imediată a celui de-Al doilea sex a fost furtunoasă; această carte, apelând la toate domeniile cunoașterii, era o adevărată mașină de război, o mașină menită să distrugă discursul construit de secole de dominație masculină.“ — Libération „O anatomie a femeii care e un studiu de statură și proporții clasice, istoric, psihologic, fiziologic, social și sexual, precum și un comentariu cât se poate de pătrunzător asupra dualității rolului ei. Căci pe fundalul proiecției idealiste a femeii independente există realitatea conflictului «între revendicarea fundamentală a oricărui subiect care se afirmă întotdeauna ca element esențial și exigențele unei situații care o fac să fie un element neesențial».“ — Kirkus Reviews „Al doilea sex a fost un act de o îndrăzneală prometeică – un furt al focului olimpian – de la care nu mai exista cale de întoarcere.“ — The New York Times Mi-am dat seama că a apărut o primă întrebare: Ce însemnase pentru mine să fiu femeie?… „Pentru mine“, i-am zis lui Sartre, „nu a contat, ca să spun așa“. „Totuși, nu ai fost crescută la fel ca un băiat: ar trebui să privești mai îndeaproape.“ Am privit și am avut o revelație; această lume era o lume masculină, copilăria mea se hrănise cu mituri născocite de bărbați, iar eu nu reacționasem în același fel ca un băiat. Eram atât de interesată de subiect, încât am abandonat proiectul unei confesiuni personale pentru a mă ocupa de condiția feminină în ansamblul ei. — SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR, La Force des choses „«Voi construi o forță în care mă voi refugia pentru totdeauna», spune Simone de Beauvoir în scrierile sale de tinerețe. Această forță se traduce foarte devreme în viața ei prin voința absolută de a scrie. A vrut să scape de căsătorie, maternitate, cămin. A vrut să trăiască liberă. «Nimic nu ne limita, nimic nu ne definea, nimic nu ne supunea; legăturile noastre cu lumea noi le cream; libertatea era însăși substanța noastră.» Această frază, scrisă cu vigoare în Puterea vârstei, rezumă ea singură un portret al lui Simone de Beauvoir.“ — France Culture

Uma das maiores intelectuais francesas da História, Simone de Beauvoir discorre neste livro sobre um período bastante decisivo em sua trajetória. A aproximação com a filosofia, o encontro com Jean-Paul Sartre e a eclosão da guerra em 1939 são acontecimentos que terminam por influenciar a formação literária, filosófica e política da escritora, que, mesmo em um cenário de agitação internacional, soube encontrar força no exercício da própria liberdade. Esta edição de A força da idade, uma das obras dedicadas às memórias de Simone, conta ainda com a apresentação de Mirian Goldenberg, antropóloga e colunista da Folha de S.Paulo.

O fim da Segunda Guerra Mundial, a França liberta do poder hitlerista e o recomeço da Europa são o ponto de partida para o terceiro livro de memórias de Simone de Beauvoir. Em A força das coisas, ela nos relata sua experiência como pensadora consagrada, numa escrita sóbria e madura. A autora remonta belas histórias de viagens (à Espanha e à Áustria, por exemplo) e o cotidiano da intelectualidade francesa, com montagens de peças, publicações de livros, divulgação de manifestos em revistas, enfim, o soerguimento das manifestações culturais no pós-guerra. Simone dedica ainda parte desta obra a suas impressões sobre o Brasil, a partir de sua visita com Sartre, guiada por Jorge Amado. Esta edição conta com a tradução de Maria Helena Franco Martins e traz um prefácio inédito da professora e pesquisadora Magda Guadalupe dos Santos.

A novel of an intense and vivid girlhood friendship from the award-winning French feminist and existentialist, unpublished in her lifetime. Finalist for the French-American Florence Gould Translation PrizeIntroduction by Margaret Atwood From the moment Sylvie and Andrée meet in their Parisian day school, they see in each other an accomplice with whom to confront the mysteries of girlhood. For the next ten years, the two are the closest of friends and confidantes as they explore life in a post-World War One France, and as Andrée becomes increasingly reckless and rebellious, edging closer to peril. Sylvie, insightful and observant, sees a France of clashing ideals and religious hypocrisy—and at an early age is determined to form her own opinions. Andrée, a tempestuous dreamer, is inclined to melodrama and romance. Despite their different natures they rely on each other to safeguard their secrets while entering adulthood in a world that did not pay much attention to the wills and desires of young women. Deemed too intimate to publish during Simone de Beauvoir''s life, Inseparable offers fresh insight into the groundbreaking feminist''s own coming-of-age; her transformative, tragic friendship with her childhood friend Zaza Lacoin; and how her youthful relationships shaped her philosophy. Sandra Smith''s vibrant translation of the novel will be long cherished by de Beauvoir devotees and first-time readers alike. "Beautifully translated . . . torturously delicious and consuming in the way doomed love stories often are. . . . Brief and exuberant, Inseparable amplifies the canon of a titan of twentieth century feminism and reveals her in an unexpectedly tender, unguarded mode." — Harper''s Magazine

Klassikkokirjailijan ennen julkaisematon pienoisromaani tyttöjen välisestä ystävyydestä Sylvie istuu uuden oppilaan Andréen viereen katolisessa tyttökoulussa, ja siitä alkaa vuosien mittainen intiimi ja traaginen ystävyyssuhde. Ensimmäisen maailmansodan aikaiseen Ranskaan sijoittuva pienoisromaani kuvaa paitsi tyttöjen välistä syvää ystävyyttä myös oman paikan löytämistä keskiluokkaisessa ja naisille epäsuotuisan rajoitetussa maailmassa. Erottamattomat pohjautuu Simone de Beauvoirin ja hänen lapsuuden- ja nuoruudenaikaisen ystävänsä Élisabeth Lacoinin eli Zazan suhteeseen. Jo vuonna 1954 kirjoitettu pienoisromaani julkaistaan vasta nyt, sillä Simone de Beauvoir ei halunnut sitä julki elinaikanaan sen henkilökohtaisuuden vuoksi. Kirjailijan kasvattityttären Sylvie Le Bon de Beauvoirin teokseen kirjoittama esipuhe valottaa tekstin elämäkerrallista ainesta, ja mukana on myös vanhoja kuvia ja kirjeitä. Simone de Beauvoir (1908–1986) on yksi maailmankirjallisuuden merkkinimiä ja sotienjälkeisen Ranskan tunnetuimpia ja vaikutusvaltaisimpia naiskirjailijoita ja ajattelijoita. Hänet muistetaan erityisesti feministisestä teoksestaan Toinen sukupuoli (1949), josta on peräisin hänen tunnetuin lauseensa ”naiseksi ei synnytä, naiseksi tullaan”, sekä Goncourt-palkitusta Mandariinit-romaanistaan (1954). De Beauvoir julkaisi elinaikanaan lukuisia romaaneja ja esseitä sekä omaelämäkerrallisia ja filosofisia teoksia.

Simone de Beauvoir, still a teen, began a diary while a philosophy student at the Sorbonne. Written in 1926-27—before Beauvoir met Jean-Paul Sartre—the diaries reveal previously unknown details about her life and times and offer critical insights into her early intellectual interests, philosophy, and literary works. Presented for the first time in translation, this fully annotated first volume of the Diary includes essays from Barbara Klaw and Margaret A. Simons that address its philosophical, historical, and literary significance. It remains an invaluable resource for tracing the development of Beauvoir’s independent thinking and her influence on philosophy, feminism, and the world.

Il problema della vera relazione tra uomo e uomo è la questione etica centrale di Dobbiamo bruciare Sade? Questo saggio affronta il dramma dell’intersoggettività e segna un ritorno per Simone de Beauvoir alla questione della responsabilità dell’artista, già sollevata in Per una morale dell’ambiguità. Sebbene Beauvoir accusi Sade di essere un artista tecnicamente limitato, il cuore della sua critica è etico e non estetico. Sade ha violato i suoi obblighi di autore: invece di rivelarci il mondo nelle sue promesse e nelle sue possibilità, invece di fare appello a noi per combattere per la giustizia, egli si è rifugiato nell’immaginario e ha sviluppato giustificazioni metafisiche per sofferenza e crudeltà. Così facendo, Sade ci ha (ma soprattutto si è) ingannato, anche se ciò, agli occhi di Beauvoir, non lo rende meno colpevole.

''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 of good and evil, and show instead how we make our own destiny simply by being. One of twenty new books in the bestselling Penguin Great Ideas series. This new selection showcases a diverse list of thinkers who have helped shape our world today, from anarchists to stoics, feminists to prophets, satirists to Zen Buddhists.

From the groundbreaking author of The Second Sex comes a radical argument for ethical responsibility and freedom. In this classic introduction to existentialist thought, French philosopher Simone de Beauvoir''s The Ethics of Ambiguity simultaneously pays homage to and grapples with her French contemporaries, philosophers Jean-Paul Sartre and Maurice Merleau-Ponty, by arguing that the freedoms in existentialism carry with them certain ethical responsibilities. De Beauvoir outlines a series of "ways of being" (the adventurer, the passionate person, the lover, the artist, and the intellectual), each of which overcomes the former''s deficiencies, and therefore can live up to the responsibilities of freedom. Ultimately, de Beauvoir argues that in order to achieve true freedom, one must battle against the choices and activities of those who suppress it. The Ethics of Ambiguity is the book that launched Simone de Beauvoir''s feminist and existential philosophy. It remains a concise yet thorough examination of existence and what it means to be human. "More than any other single human, [de Beauvior''s] responsible for the current international women''s movement." —Gloria Steinem "One of de Beauvoir''s most intriguing and original philosophical works." — Philosophy Now

El segundo sexo (Le Deuxième Sexe) es un libro escrito en 1949 por Simone de Beauvoir. Se le considera una de las obras más relevantes, a nivel filosófico, del siglo XX. Fue un rotundo éxito de ventas. Su autora comenzó a escribirlo cuando reflexionó sobre lo que había significado para ella el ser mujer. Comenzó a investigar acerca de la situación de las mujeres a lo largo de la historia y escribió este extenso ensayo que aborda cómo se ha concebido a la mujer, qué situaciones viven las mujeres y cómo se puede intentar que mejoren sus vidas y se amplíen sus libertades.Es una de las obras fundacionales del Feminismo y utiliza los conceptos existencialistas para indagar acerca de la vida de la mitad de la humanidad. También es considerada una obra enciclopédica, pues aborda la identidad de las mujeres y la diferencia sexual desde los puntos de vista de la psicología, la historia, la antropología, la biología, la reproducción y la relación afectivo-sexual.La teoría principal que sostiene Beauvoir es que "la mujer", o más exactamente lo que entendemos por mujer (coqueta, cariñosa, etc.) es un producto cultural que se ha construido socialmente. La mujer se ha definido a lo largo de la historia siempre respecto a algo: como madre, esposa, hija, hermana... Así pues, la principal tarea de la mujer es reconquistar su propia identidad específica y desde sus propios criterios. Muchas de las características que presentan las mujeres no les vienen dadas de su genética, sino de cómo han sido educadas y socializadas. La frase que resume esta teoría es muy célebre: "No se nace mujer: llega una a serlo".

From the groundbreaking author of The Second Sex "a book that will leave no one indifferent, and no one affected in quite the same way" ( New York Times ). A superb memoir 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. "The graciously written memoirs carry distinct appeal in recording the emotional and intellectual birth pangs of a fascinating woman." — Time "Excellent. . . . the line between the child Simone and the woman of "The Second Sex" and "The Mandarins" is direct and clear." —Joan Brace, Chicago Sunday Times "This is perhaps the best piece of writing Mlle. de Beauvoir has yet done; the translator does it justice." —Germaine Bref, Saturday Review

Vintage Feminism: classic feminist texts in short form WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY NATALIE HAYNES When this book was first published in 1949 it was to outrage and scandal. Never before had the case for female liberty been so forcefully and successfully argued. De Beauvoir’s belief that ‘One is not born, but rather becomes, woman’ switched on light bulbs in the heads of a generation of women and began a fight for greater equality and economic independence. These pages contain the key passages of the book that changed perceptions of women forever. TRANSLATED BY CONSTANCE BORDE AND SHEILA MALOVANY-CHEVALLIER ANNOTATED AND INTRODUCED BY MARTINE REID

Includes pages that contain the key passages of the book that changed perceptions of women forever.

Vingt et un ans et l''agrégation de philosophie en 1929. La rencontre de Jean-Paul Sartre. Ce sont les années décisives pour Simone de Beauvoir. Celles ou s''accomplit sa vocation d''écrivain, si longtemps rêvée. Dix ans passés à enseigner, à écrire, à voyager sac au dos, à nouer des amitiés, à se passionner pour des idées nouvelles. La force de l''âge est pleinement atteinte quand la guerre éclate, en 1939, mettant fin brutalement à dix années de vie merveilleusement libre.

Simone de Beauvoir’s account of the last ten years of Jean-Paul Sartre’s life provides a focus for understanding one of the greatest thinkers of the twentieth century. But the book, consisting of both a year-by-year account of Sartre’s last decade and a conversation between him and de Beauvoir about his life and work, is more than just a philosophical examination. It is also a personal dialogue of astonishing frankness that illuminates one of the most famous and complex relationships of the twentieth century. Translated by Patrick O''Brian

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

Political Writings offers an abundance of newly translated essays by Simone de Beauvoir that demonstrate a heretofore unknown side of her political philosophy. The writings in this volume range from Beauvoir''s surprising 1952 defense of the misogynistic eighteenth-century pornographer, the Marquis de Sade, to a co-written 1974 documentary film, transcribed here for the first time, which draws on Beauvoir''s analysis of how socioeconomic privilege shapes the biological reality of aging. The volume traces nearly three decades of Beauvoir''s leftist political engagement, from exposés of conditions in fascist Spain and Portugal in 1945 and hard-hitting attacks on right-wing French intellectuals in the 1950s, to the 1962 defense of an Algerian freedom fighter, Djamila Boupacha, and a 1975 article arguing for what is now called the "two-state solution" in Israel. Together these texts prefigure Beauvoir''s later feminist activism and provide a new interpretive context for reading her multi-volume autobiography, while also shedding new light on French intellectual history during the turbulent era of decolonization.

This collection of classic titles by Beauvoir her most well know writings, The Second Sex and The Ethics Of Ambiguity as well as a biography of her life and a rare interview on her book The Second Sex. French writer and feminist, and Existentialist. She is known primarily for her treatise The Second Sex (1949), a scholarly and passionate plea for the abolition of what she called the myth of the "eternal feminine." It became a classic of feminist literature during the 1960s. Her novels expounded the major Existential themes, demonstrating her conception of the writer''s commitment to the times. She Came To Stay (1943) treats the difficult problem of the relationship of a conscience to "the other". Of her other works of fiction, perhaps the best known is The Mandarins (1954), a chronicle of the attempts of post-World War II intellectuals to leave their "mandarin" (educated elite) status and engage in political activism. She also wrote four books of philosophy, including The Ethics of Ambiguity (1947). Several volumes of her work are devoted to autobiography which constitute a telling portrait of French intellectual life from the 1930s to the 1970s. In addition to treating feminist issues, de Beauvoir was concerned with the issue of aging, which she addressed in A Very Easy Death (1964), on her mother''s death in a hospital. In 1981 she wrote A Farewell to Sartre, a painful account of Sartre''s last years. Simone de Beauvoir revealed herself as a woman of formidable courage and integrity, whose life supported her thesis: the basic options of an individual must be made on the premises of an equal vocation for man and woman founded on a common structure of their being, independent of their sexuality. Table of Contents: The Second Sex, On the publication of The Second Sex, interview The Ethics of Ambiguity, Biography

Provocative insights into Beauvoir''s philosophical and personal development during wartime

Despite growing interest in her philosophy, Simone de Beauvoir remains widely misunderstood. She is typically portrayed as a mere intellectual follower of her companion, Jean-Paul Sartre. In Philosophical Writings, Beauvoir herself shows that nothing could be further from the truth. Beauvoir''s philosophical work suffers from a lack of English-language translation or, worse, mistranslation into heavily condensed popular versions. Philosophical Writings provides an unprecedented collection of complete, scholarly editions of philosophical texts that cover the first twenty-three years of Beauvoir''s career, including a number of recently discovered works. Ranging from metaphysical literature to existentialist ethics, Philosophical Writings brings together diverse elements of Beauvoir''s work while highlighting continuities in the development of her thought. Each of the translations features detailed notes and a scholarly introduction explaining its larger significance. Revelatory and long overdue, Philosophical Writings adds to the ongoing resurgence of interest in Beauvoir''s thought and to her growing influence on today''s philosophical curriculum.

Probably de Beauvoir''s strangest and most compelling novel, this is the captivating story of a beautiful young actress who revives a downcast stranger at a French resort. 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.

A portrait of 20th-century China written by the author of "The Second Sex", Simone de Beauvoir.

A portrait of 1940s America by a French writer, eg. "The constipated girl smiles a loving smile at the lemon juice that relieves her intestines. In the subway, in the streets, on magazine pages, these smiles pursue me like obsessions. I read on a sign in a drugstore, ''Not to grin is a sin.'' Everyone obeys the order, the system. ''Cheer up! Take it easy.'' Optimism is necessary for the country''s social peace and economic prosperity."

Das berühmte Standardwerk von Simone de Beauvoir. Die universelle Standortbestimmung der Frau, die aus jahrtausendealter Abhängigkeit von männlicher Vorherrschaft ausgebrochen ist, hat nichts an Gültigkeit eingebüßt. Die Scharfsichtigkeit der grundlegenden Analyse tritt in der Neuübersetzung noch deutlicher hervor.