Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter

A memoir that offers a picture of the author's growing up in a bourgeois French family, rebelling as an adolescent against the conventional expectations of her class, and striking out on her own with an intellectual and existential ambition exceedingly rare in a young woman in the 1920s. A superb autobiography by one of the great literary figures of the twentieth century, Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter offers an intimate picture of growing up in a bourgeois French family, rebelling as an adolescent against the conventional expectations of her class, and striking out on her own with an intellectual and existential ambition exceedingly rare in a young woman in the 1920s. Simone de Beavoir describes her early life, from her birth in Paris in 1908 to her student days at the Sorbonne, where she met Jean-Paul sartre - ''the dream-companion I had longed for since I was fifteen''.

• | Author: Simone de Beauvoir, James Kirkup
• | Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
• | Publication Date: Feb 22, 2001
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• | Language: eng
• | Binding: Paperback / softback
• | ISBN-13: 9780141185330
• | ISBN-10: 0141185333