A superb autobiography by one of the great literary. Memoirs of a dutiful daughter penguin modern classics. In memoirs of a dutiful daughtershe describes her early life, from her birth in paris, 1908, to her student days at the sorbonne, where she met jeanpaul satre the dreamcompanion i had longed for since i was fifteen. A superb autobiography by one of the great literary figures of the twentieth century, simone. She will make you think hard, she will make you ask questions about such basic beliefs which we take for granted. The book was published in multiple languages including english, consists of 384 pages and is available in paperback format. The autobiography explains four stages in the development of her life from age 020. Memoirs of a dutiful daughter perennial classics 9780060825195. It depicts her early years growing up in a bourgeois french family, her adolescent rebellion against the convention and religious doctrine, and college education at the sorbonne. Modern classics memoirs of a dutiful daughter penguin modern classics 8601416937991. 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.
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