Letters to Sartre

• სათაური: Letters to Sartre
• ISBN კოდი: 9781611454987
• ავტორი: Simone de Beauvoir
• გამომცემელი: iBooks
• გამოცემის თარიღი: 2012
• ენა: ინგლისური
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• კატეგორია: წიგნები
• ნახვები: 53
• რეიტინგი: 5.0

• Introduction — Quintin Hoare
• Preface to the French Edition — Sylvie Le Bon de Beauvoir
• LETTERS
• January 1930 —July 1939 Before the War
• September 1939 — March 1940 The Phoney War
• July 1940 — March 1941 Sartre Prisoner
• July 1943 — February 1946 Before Liberation and After
• January 1947 — October 1951 America
• June 1953 — July 1963 Later Interludes

Table of Contents Introduction — Quintin Hoare
Preface to the French Edition — Sylvie Le Bon de Beauvoir
LETTERS
January 1930 —July 1939 Before the War
September 1939 — March 1940 The Phoney War
July 1940 — March 1941 Sartre Prisoner
July 1943 — February 1946 Before Liberation and After
January 1947 — October 1951 America
June 1953 — July 1963 Later Interludes
Copyright © 1990, 2011 by Editions Gallimard
Introduction copyright © 1991, 2011 by Quintin Hoare
English translation copyright © 1991, 2011 by Quintin Hoare
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Contents Introduction — Quintin Hoare
 
Preface to the French Edition — Sylvie Le Bon de Beauvoir
 
LETTERS
 
January 1930 —July 1939 Before the War
 
September 1939 — March 1940 The Phoney War
 
July 1940 — March 1941 Sartre Prisoner
 
July 1943 — February 1946 Before Liberation and After
 
January 1947 — October 1951 America
 
June 1953 — July 1963 Later Interludes
 
 
INTRODUCTION
Simone de Beauvoir (born 1908, died 1986) was for the last four decades of her life — indeed is stilly after her death — not just one of the most famous women of the age, but also one of the most public. Six autobiographical works were published in her lifetime (four volumes of memoirs, and her accounts of her mother’s and Sartre’s deaths). Innumerable interviews covered all her various personae: existentialist philosopher; prize-winning novelist; courageous political campaigner; pioneer theorist and role-model for the women’s movement internationally; Sartre’s lifelong companion — in that notorious ‘morganatic union’ allowing contingent loves. A vast secondary literature, in many languages, has been devoted to her life and works. All this taken together might lead one to believe that everything had already been told and retold, so De Beauvoir could now go gentle into the good night of easy oblivion that so often swallows up public figures for a while after their physical demise. It has turned out, however, that nothing could be farther from the truth.
 
Within two years of her death, De Beauvoir was once again at the vortex of a controversial maelstrom, investing the central core of her entire public being — her very integrity, as a valid inspiration to successive generations of women pursuing the elusive grail of equality and freedom (and, of course, to men identifying with those goals). What unleashed the maelstrom? It was the publication of her correspondence with Sartre, translated in the present volume. This revealed what a very partial segment of the human truth had, in reality, ever been disclosed, in all that welter of biographical and autobiographical coverage. It also demonstrated the radical incompatibility of her and Sartre’s whole conception of free human relations — as they actually lived it — with the somewhat rose-tinted, soft-edged public image she had herself at times helped to create.
 
Of course, it had long been manifest that De Beauvoir’s own account of her life had been ruthlessly censored, pruned and sanitized to present the public facade she deemed...