The Woman Destroyed (Harper Perennial Modern Classics)

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that's enough for me to read anything in and of itself, including but not limited to golf magazines, industrial catalogs, and the grocery lists of my least favorite neighbor (WHY ARE YOUR PARTIES ALWAYS ON WEEKDAYS, YES I KNOW I SOUND LIKE A GRUMPY OLD MAN IN THE FIRST HALF OF A FEEL-GOOD FAMILY FILM)...but in addition to that, simone de beauvoir is a stunning writer with a true sense of people.

Nevertheless, the message of this stories can be heard loud and clear. Popular culture suggests that marriage and maternity are essential for the success and happiness of a woman. Simone de Beauvoir and her three protagonists tell us ‘Don’t buy it.’ Things are not that easy, happiness is hard work, and disappointment is unavoidable. A woman is not only a wife, nor only a mother, nor also only her job description. I hope we understand that someday. It’s flying in the face of nature that my own brother my own mother should prefer my ex-husband to me.” And: “I wanted decent clean children I didn’t want Francis to become a fairy like Nanard.” Un’autrice che conoscevo solo nella sua versione saggistica mi si è rivelata in una prosa calda, profonda ed indimenticabile. 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).In “The Age of Discretion,” the woman is faced with a young married son who suddenly tears himself free from her sphere of influence. She rejects him completely, refusing to see him. At the same time, she observes that she no longer seems to bring her husband any kind of happiness. She and he are not in accord over her treatment of their son. urn:lcp:womandestroyed0000beau_b5u1:epub:1cd2a0a0-e352-42ab-ad45-53800491ff0f Foldoutcount 0 Identifier womandestroyed0000beau_b5u1 Identifier-ark ark:/13960/s2fsd3m71bb Invoice 1652 Isbn 0394711033 Lccn 84001846 Ocr tesseract 5.0.0-1-g862e Ocr_detected_lang en Ocr_detected_lang_conf 1.0000 Ocr_detected_script Latin Ocr_detected_script_conf 1.0000 Ocr_module_version 0.0.15 Ocr_parameters -l eng Old_pallet IA-WL-0000209 Openlibrary_edition Outre le célèbre Deuxième sexe (1949) devenu l'ouvrage de référence du mouvement féministe mondial, l'œuvre théorique de Simone de Beauvoir comprend de nombreux essais philosophiques ou polémiques. But it's interesting that the same woman who finds freedom in having a week to herself while her husband is away at a business conference, is destroyed when she finds that he's been having an affair: the self-construction is striking - freedom is contingent on an overriding super-structure of being a wife-and-mother: take away that primary identity and Monique is adrift. Simone de Beauvoir was a French author and philosopher. She wrote novels, monographs on philosophy, political and social issues, essays, biographies, and an autobiography. She is now best known for her metaphysical novels, including "She Came to Stay" and "The Mandarins", and for her 1949 treatise "The Second Sex", a detailed analysis of women's oppression and a foundational tract of contemporary feminism.

De Beauvoir sincerely and authentically captures what life is like for middle-aged women in an emotionally resonant work. The stylistic diversity of the three stories successfully reflects the complexities of a woman’s mind and de Beauvoir’s unapologetic portrayal of women ‘past their prime’, replete with their doubts and failures. Each woman is a refreshing alternative to the feminist powerhouse in high demand by those looking for female protagonists, reflecting patterns of life, insecurities, and similarities with any number of women the most unsuspecting reader may know. The unraveling of these women’s lives is accessible and human, a humanity that is deeply intimate and painful. De Beauvoir manages this masterful piece of prose illuminating the inner workings of the middle aged woman’s mind in a way only a pioneer of existentialism could. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 2022-05-04 16:21:33 Autocrop_version 0.0.12_books-20220331-0.2 Bookplateleaf 0010 Boxid IA40463807 Camera USB PTP Class Camera Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier And it’s the same thing everywhere all the time whether they’re stuffing themselves with chips paella or pizza it’s the same crew a filthy crew the rich who trample over you the poor who hate you for your money the old who dodder the young who sneer the men who show off the women who open their legs. I’d rather stay at home reading a thriller although they’ve become so dreary nowadays. The TV too what a clapped-out set of fools! I was made for another planet altogether I mistook the way.” Puede resultar, por lo tanto, extraña la idea de leer extractos de la vida y de los pensamientos de tres mujeres de 40 y 60 años, llenos de miedos, dudas, fracasos. No obstante, opino que es precisamente con esta clase de vidas con las que nos haremos preguntas, cuestiones que no nos atrevíamos a plantear o que simplemente no habían pasado por nuestras cabezas.With her focus firmly on the inner lives of three women, de Beauvoir somehow manages to be coolly analytical while still conjuring the searing emotions that both make and unmake her female protagonists. El libro se compone de tres relatos bien distintos en forma y contenido, aunque todos sean en primera persona, aunque en todos ellos haya una mujer que sufre, que ve como se tambalea su propia identidad al derrumbarse los pilares sobre los que se sustentaba. When I was a child, when I was an adolescent, books saved me from despair: that convinced me that culture was the highest of values[...].” In each story, the purpose and meaning of marriage, relationships, love, and life are drawn into question as their chloroformed contentment painfully unravels. Each woman and each reader participating in her journey struggles with the question: