Description
Simone de Beauvoir's "Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter" offers an intimate and unflinching look at her formative years, charting her intellectual and personal awakening. This autobiographical work delves into her upbringing within a bourgeois Catholic family in Paris, exploring the societal constraints and personal desires that shaped her early life. Beauvoir meticulously recounts her journey from a "dutiful daughter" to a fiercely independent thinker, laying the groundwork for her later philosophical and feminist explorations. The narrative captures the intensity of youthful rebellion, the pursuit of knowledge, and the dawning realization of her own existential freedom.
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paperback
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Published Oct 12, 2016
27 pages
ISBN: 9782806279750
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First Published
1958
Language
eng
Translation
From: fra
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