The Inseparables / Simone De Beauvoir, translated from the French by Lauren Elkin, introduced by Deborah Levy, afterword by Sylvie Le Bon De Beauvoir.
Language: English Original language: French Series: Vintage classics (London, England)Publication details: London : Vintage Classics, 2021.Description: xviii, 137 pages : illustrations ; 21 cmISBN:- 178487700X
- 9781784877002
- Inséparables. English
- 843.912 23
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Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Fiction | BEA | Available | 063228 |
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The newly discovered novel from Simone De Beauvoir.
When Andree joins her school, Sylvie is immediately fascinated. Andree is small for her age, but walks with the confidence of an adult. Under her red coat, she hides terrible burn scars. And when she imagines beautiful things, she gets goosebumps... Secretly Sylvie believes that Andree is a prodigy about whom books will be written. 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 they can't stay like this forever. Written in 1954, five years after The Second Sex, the novel was never published in Simone de Beauvoir's lifetime.
Translated from the French.