ボーヴォワール評伝 Simone de Beauvoir (Critical Lives)

Tidd, Ursula

Reaktion Books（2009/06発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 192 p.／サイズ 30 halftones
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781861894342
• DDC分類 843.912

基本説明

In this concise and up-to-date critical appraisal of both the life and words of Beauvoir, Ursula Tidd illustrates the many facets of the feminist icon's complex personality.

Full Description

'One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman,' wrote Simone de Beauvoir (1908-1986) in her controversial bestseller The Second Sex (1949), widely acclaimed as the founding book of modern feminism. Beauvoir lived through some of the most dramatic and harrowing events of the twentieth century, a time of huge change for women across the world. Ursula Tidd illuminates these and many other facets of Beauvoir's complex personality: her relentless autobiographical drive, living life as a continually unfolding narrative; her personal and intellectual relationships, essentially lived as a series of dialogues with a variety of interlocutors, including Jean-Paul Sartre and Nelson Algren; her active involvement in political struggles; and how Beauvoir the woman became Beauvoir the myth.

This concise and up-to-date appraisal of the life and works of the quintessential feminist intellectual draws on the most recent scholarship on Beauvoir's work, and on newly published and extant volumes of her diaries and correspondence, to allow the reader unrivalled access to the voice of this pivotal modern figure.