“A book that will leave no one indifferent, and no one affected in quite the same way.” —
New York Times
A superb autobiography by one of the great literary figures of the twentieth century
Simone de Beauvoir's
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.
Beauvoir vividly evokes her friendships, love interests, mentors, and the early days of the most important relationship of her life, with fellow student Jean-Paul Sartre, against the backdrop of a turbulent political time.