Simone de Beauvoir

Born in 1908, Simone de Beauvoir was a brilliant scholar and novelist,eading member of the existentialist movement and a committed socialist andeminist. Raised in a stiflingly respectable envitonment, as a young womanhe totally rejected her parents' values and embarked on her literary career.ith Jean-Paul Sartre she formed a unique relationship, which she describeds 'The one undoubted success in my life'. Later in life she was committed tochieving radical social and political change, but it was writing that gaveeaning to her life; above everything, she valued her own intellectualudience.

Lisa Appignanesi is a novelist, writer and broadcaster

Introduction	p. 1
The Dutiful Daughter	p. 8
A Necessary Love	p. 28
Literature as Salvation	p. 45
The Ethics of Existentialism	p. 66
Being a Woman	p. 85
The Committed Intellectual	p. 113
The Exemplary Life	p. 131
A Radical Old Age	p. 145
Notes	p. 165
Chronology	p. 168
List of Works	p. 175
Further Reading	p. 177
Picture Sources	p. 179
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