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“I recommend this novel in part because many people think that Beauvoir doesn’t become a political person until the writing of The Second Sex. In fact, her fiction from the 1940s shows that a lot of the preoccupations she had about women’s roles in society and the way they’ve been conditioned by history stretch quite a way back into her past.” Read more...
The Best Simone de Beauvoir Books
Kate Kirkpatrick, Biographer
