Simone de Beauvoir

"The Useless Mouths" and Other Literary Writings (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Simons, Margaret A.; Timmermann, Marybeth

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

"The Useless Mouths" and Other Literary Writings brings to English-language readers literary writings--several previously unknown--by Simone de Beauvoir. Highlights of the volume include a new translation of the 1945 play The Useless Mouths, the unpublished 1965 short novel "Misunderstanding in Moscow," the fragmentary "Notes for a Novel," and an eagerly awaited translation of Beauvoir's contribution to a 1965 debate among Jean-Paul Sartre and other French writers and intellectuals, "What Can Literature Do?" The collection includes critical introductions by Meryl Altman, Elizabeth Fallaize, Alison S. Fell, Sarah Gendron, Dennis A. Gilbert, Laura Hengehold, Eleanore Holveck, Terry Keefe, J. Debbie Mann, Frederick M. Morrison, Catherine Naji, Justine Sarrot, Liz Stanley, Ursula Tidd, and Veronique Zaytzeff.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Illinois Press
• Seitenzahl: 424
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. November 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780252097195
• Artikelnr.: 41966209

Autorenporträt

Simone de Beauvoir (1908-86) was a French existentialist philosopher who employed a literary-philosophical method in her essays, including Ethics of Ambiguity (1947) and The Second Sex (1949), as well as in her novels, multivolume autobiography, and other works.