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by Beauvoir S De (Author)
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"The graciously written memoirs carry distinct appeal in recording the emotional and intellectual birth pangs of a fascinating woman."


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"It is a book that will leave no one indifferent, and no one affected in quite the same way." (New York Times )

"This is perhaps the best piece of writing Mlle. de Beauvoir has yet done; the translator does it justice." (Saturday Review )

"[Beauvoir's] graciously written memoirs carry distinct appeal in recording the emotional and intellectual birth pangs of a fascinating woman." (Time )
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4.0 out of 5 stars The Formation of A Philosopher, Nov 24 2000
By Joshua Young (Hatfield, Pa United States) - See all my reviews
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Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter is the first in a series of autobiographies by Simone de Beauvoir. Beauvoir tells the reader of her early days as a child and she concludes while she is a young women with the loss of her beloved friend Zaza. The memoir is at times a bit dry, and dull, but I dont think it was the intent of Beauvoir to write an exciting tale of her childhood. Instead I believe that the book was written more to show the path Beauvoir took in being an intellectual and why. Many times in the book French bourgeios soceity is criticized by Beauvoir because there was a double standard that exisited. For instance as Beauvoir writes about her mother "Convention obliged her to excuse certain [sexual] indescretions in men; she concentrated her disapproval on women; she divided women into those who were 'respectable' and those who were 'lose" (38). All throughout the book the reader is presented with a double standard-- men do what they want have carrers, jobs etc. while women must be pure and stay at home to have children. Not only is bourgeois society criticized, so too is the Catholic church in its regards to French private and public education. Besides the main themes Beauvoir talks about her childhood recolections-- her visiting relatives, her love of books, and her friends which culminates in the death of her life long friend Zaza. Beauvoir sees Zaza death as the fault of the French bourgeois system becuase Zaza died died of a broken heart at not being able to marry her love. The book is full of criticisms, and odinary tales. The best atribute of the book is that it presents the reader to the world of early 20th century French bourgeois society.
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3.0 out of 5 stars PORTRAIT OF THE PHILOSOPHER AS A YOUNG WOMAN, Jul 20 2000
By "really-siobhan" (Winchester, MA United States) - See all my reviews
It is interesting that a previous reviewer at the site called this the most accessible volume of Simone's memoirs while another wrote that this is not the best place to start with Simone. I agree with the latter. I have come to the conclusion that Simone's own diligence sometimes brought her to her knees. This was a woman capable of working for hours on end. . .and drinking just as hard. Clearly, she was ambivalent about herself:she knew she was of superior intelligence -- she finished her aggregation at the age of 21 -- yet she maintained a position that she was second to Sartre. She said that she never felt handicapped as a woman and yet she suffered from many of woman's woes -- crying and jealousy. I started with Simone's war-time memoirs -- Force of Circumstance -- which are so riveting that they draw you immediately into them. I expected the same sort of lush and wonderful writing here. I may have approached this volume with my hopes too high. A word of warning: Catholicism obviously made quite an impact on the young Simone. Readers who are not Catholic maybe mystified by this book.
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5.0 out of 5 stars A blueprint of one woman's genius, May 28 2000
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This is the first (and, admittedly, the easiest to read) of Beauvoir's multi-volume journals. It is an amazing account of the philosopher's beginnings, and I press it on young women in high school and college when they talk to me about their struggles to understand their place in our world.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Portrait of the artist as a young girl
For people who are already familiar with Beauvoir's writing, this autobiographical writing is maddeningly dense. Read more
Published on April 23 2000 by C. Gilbert

4.0 out of 5 stars Pure French Flavour
Simone de Beauvoir, Parisian pioneer in existentialist philosophy and author of feminist theory in "The Second Sex", tells all in the first of a four part autobiography, "Memoirs... Read more
Published on Mar 14 2000 by Lisa de Kleyn

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