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“The Useless Mouths” and Other Literary Writings
\"The Useless Mouths\" and Other Literary Writings brings to English-language readers literary writings--several previously unknown--by Simone de Beauvoir. Culled from sources including various American university collections, the works span decades of Beauvoir's career. Ranging from dramatic works and literary theory to radio broadcasts, they collectively reveal fresh insights into Beauvoir's writing process, personal life, and the honing of her philosophy. The volume begins with a new translation of the 1945 play The Useless Mouths, written in Paris during the Nazi occupation. Other pieces were discovered after Beauvoir's death in 1986, such as the 1965 short novel \"Misunderstanding in Moscow,\" involving an elderly French couple who confront their fears of aging. Two additional previously unknown texts include the fragmentary \"Notes for a Novel,\" which contains the seed of what she later would call \"the problem of the Other,\" and a lecture on postwar French theater titled Existentialist Theater. The collection notably includes the 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?\" Prefaces to well-known works such as Bluebeard and Other Fairy Tales, La Bâtarde, and James Joyce in Paris: His Final Years are also available in English for the first time, alongside essays and other short articles. A landmark contribution to Beauvoir studies and French literary studies, the volume includes informative and engaging introductory essays by prominent and rising scholars. Contributors are 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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Women's writing in contemporary france
The book provides an up-to-date introduction to an analysis of new women's writing in contemporary France, including both new writers of the 1990s and their more established counter-parts. The editors' incisive introduction situates these authors and their texts at the centre of the current trends and issues concerning French literary production today, whilst fifteen original essays focus on individual writers.
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INTRODUCTION
“Problèmes de la littérature féminine” (Problems for women’s literature) and “Femmes de lettres” (Women of letters) constitute the two halves of a substantial article on French women writers that Beauvoir wrote and published during her lecture tour of America, in the spring of 1947. The article, which has come to light only in the course of the preparation of this volume, throws light on Beauvoir’s thinking on the subject of women writers at an early stage of her work onLe deuxième sexe. Like the analyses ofLe deuxième sexe, and those of the lecture on women and creativity, which
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INTRODUCTION
Brigitte Bardot seems at first sight an odd choice of subject for the author ofLe deuxième sexe.¹ Yet Beauvoir had displayed an enthusiasm for film throughout her life; references to films and to film actresses abound in the memoirs, and inLe deuxième sexeactresses often serve as examples in Beauvoir’s consideration of female narcissism and of mythical ideals of female beauty. In the late 1950s and the 1960s Beauvoir was far from the only intellectual, or even the only female intellectual to interest herself in Bardot: Marguerite Duras had published an article on Bardot the previous year, in
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Brigitte Bardot seems at first sight an odd choice of subject for the author of Le deuxième sexe.1 Yet Beauvoir had displayed an enthusiasm for film throughout her life; references to films and to film actresses abound in the memoirs, and in Le deuxième sexe...
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Introduction
“Problèmes de la littérature féminine” (Problems for women’s literature) and “Femmes de lettres” (Women of letters) constitute the two halves of a substantial article on French women writers that Beauvoir wrote and published during her lecture tour of America, in the spring of 1947. The article, which has come to light only in the course of the preparation of this volume, throws light on Beauvoir’s thinking on the subject of women writers at an early stage of her work on ...
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INTRODUCTION
When Simone de Beauvoir undertook a lecture tour of Japan with Sartre in the autumn of 1966 she had long been a writer with a substantial international reputation. She had published four novels and three volumes of her autobiography, as well asLe deuxième sexe(The Second Sex) and a number of other philosophical essays. All her major work had been translated into Japanese, and the Japanese translation ofLe deuxième sexehad been a best seller only the previous year. Beauvoir has described in her memoirs the warmth of the welcome that she received from her Japanese readers.¹ The
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“In the same week we have heard Sartre’s lecture, been to the opening night ofLes bouches inutiles(The Useless Mouths) and read the first issue ofLes temps modernes(Modern Times).”¹ So wrote a mildly irritated critic, according to Beauvoir inLa force des choses(Force of Circumstance). It is not difficult to understand this reaction to the “existentialist offensive” in which Beauvoir and Sartre found themselves unwittingly engaged in the autumn of 1945. Beauvoir’s second novelLe sang des autres(The Blood of Others) was published in September, followed a few weeks later by the publication of the
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