The inseparables
Beauvoir, Simone de 1908-1986
The inseparables / Simone de Beauvoir ; afterword by Sylvie le Bon de Beauvoir ; introduction by Deborah Levy ; translated by Lauren Elkin. - London : Vintage Classics, 2023. - 176 pages ; 20 cm. - French vintage classics .
Translated from the French.
When Andrée joins her school, Sylvie is immediately fascinated. Andrée is small for her age but walks with the confidence of an adult.
The girls become close. They talk for hours about equality, justice, war and religion; they lose respect for their teachers; they build a world of their own. But as the girls grow into young women, the pressures of society mount, threatening everything.
This novel was never published in Simone de Beauvoir's lifetime. It tells the story of the real-life friendship that shaped one of the most important thinkers and feminists of the twentieth century.
9781784878467
Female friendship--Fiction
France--Intellectual life--Fiction
Autobiographical fiction
Domestic fiction
PQ2603.E362 / I4613 2023
The inseparables / Simone de Beauvoir ; afterword by Sylvie le Bon de Beauvoir ; introduction by Deborah Levy ; translated by Lauren Elkin. - London : Vintage Classics, 2023. - 176 pages ; 20 cm. - French vintage classics .
Translated from the French.
When Andrée joins her school, Sylvie is immediately fascinated. Andrée is small for her age but walks with the confidence of an adult.
The girls become close. They talk for hours about equality, justice, war and religion; they lose respect for their teachers; they build a world of their own. But as the girls grow into young women, the pressures of society mount, threatening everything.
This novel was never published in Simone de Beauvoir's lifetime. It tells the story of the real-life friendship that shaped one of the most important thinkers and feminists of the twentieth century.
9781784878467
Female friendship--Fiction
France--Intellectual life--Fiction
Autobiographical fiction
Domestic fiction
PQ2603.E362 / I4613 2023
