Female writer: Simone de Beauvoir (1908-1986)

WHO IS SHE?

He was born in Paris on January 9, 1908, and at the age of twenty-one he finished his degree in Philosophy. He met Jean-Paul Sartre in 1929, when both were professors of Philosophy. They were one of the most controversial couples of the twentieth century: They did not live together, they did not stop being you, they refused to marry and have children and they maintained relationships open with third parties. They also shared writings, ideas and heated debates. They were united intellectually and sentimentally until he passed away. With him he carried out a series of principles based on his conception of women and of the couple.

In his first novel, "The Guest", he dealt with the existentialist dilemmas of individual freedom and responsibility. Among her essays, she highlights "The Second Sex", which has become the key to feminism, and which examines, from a historical, social and philosophical perspective, the alienation of women. When she turns 40, Simone begins to consider how she had lived "the fact of being a woman". And although she admits "never having felt inferiority or that femininity was a burden for her", she has seen that many women feel that they have lived as "relative beings".

He defended the work as the "only way that guarantees women a specific freedom", because thanks to him the woman can cross "largely the distance that separates him from man".

WHAT HAS SHE WRITTEN?

Novel

• The guest (1943)
• The blood of the others (1945)
• All men are mortal (1946)
• The mandarins (1954, Goncourt Prize)
• The beautiful images (1966)
• The Broken Woman (1968)
• When the spiritual predominates (1979)

Test

• Why the action (1944)
• For a morality of ambiguity (1947)
• The existencialismo and the wisdom of the towns (1948)
• America to the day (1948)
• The second sex (1949)
• The political thought of the right (1955)
• The long march (Essay on China) (1957)
• The old age (1970)

Memories and journals

• North America day by day (1948)
• Memories of a formal young woman (1958)
• The fullness of life (1960)
• The force of things (1963)
• A very sweet death (1964)
• End of accounts (1972)
• The Goodbye Ceremony (1981)
• Diary of war: September 1939 - January 1941
• Cahiers de jeunesse, 1926-1930

Theater

• The useless mouths (1945)

WHAT HAS SHE SAID?

"Let nothing limit us, let nothing define us, let nothing hold us.Let freedom be our own substance "

WHY SHOULD NOT WE FORGET HER AND HER WORK?

She was a writer and intellectual who broke with the canons of the time, defended human rights and revolutionized feminism by criticizing the oppression of women.

-Marta.