Simone de Beauvoir

The Useless Mouths and Other Literary Writings

Herausgeber: Simons, Margaret A; Timmermann, Marybeth

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Produktbeschreibung

"The Useless Mouths" and Other Literary Writings brings to English-language readers literary writings--several previously unknown--by Simone de Beauvoir. Highlights of the volume include a new translation of the 1945 play The Useless Mouths, the unpublished 1965 short novel "Misunderstanding in Moscow," the fragmentary "Notes for a Novel," and an eagerly awaited translation of Beauvoir's contribution to a 1965 debate among Jean-Paul Sartre and other French writers and intellectuals, "What Can Literature Do?" The collection includes critical introductions by Meryl Altman, Elizabeth Fallaize, Alison S. Fell, Sarah Gendron, Dennis A. Gilbert, Laura Hengehold, Eleanore Holveck, Terry Keefe, J. Debbie Mann, Frederick M. Morrison, Catherine Naji, Justine Sarrot, Liz Stanley, Ursula Tidd, and Veronique Zaytzeff.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Illinois Press
• Seitenzahl: 424
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Februar 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 152mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 635g
• ISBN-13: 9780252085956
• ISBN-10: 0252085957
• Artikelnr.: 60370227

Autorenporträt

Simone de Beauvoir (1908–86) was a French existentialist philosopher who employed a literary-philosophical method in her works, including Ethics of Ambiguity (1947) and The Second Sex (1949). Margaret A. Simons is Distinguished Research Professor Emerita at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville and the author of Beauvoir and The Second Sex: Feminism, Race, and the Origins of Existentialism.Sylvie Le Bon de Beauvoir, adopted daughter and literary executor of Simone de Beauvoir, is the editor of Lettres à Sartre and many other works by Beauvoir. Marybeth Timmermann is a contributing translator and editor of Beauvoir's Philosophical Writings.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword to the Beauvoir Series   ix   Sylvie Le Bon de Beauvoir
Acknowledgments   xi
Introduction   1   Margaret A. Simons
1. The Useless Mouths (A Play)   9   Introduction by Liz Stanley and
Catherine Naji
2. Short Articles on Literature   89   Introduction by Elizabeth Fallaize
3. Existentialist Theater  125   Introduction by Dennis A. Gilbert
4. A Story I Used to Tell Myself   151   Introduction by Ursula Tidd
5. Preface to La Batarde by Violette Leduc   165   Introduction by Alison
S. Fell
6. What Can Literature Do?   189   Introduction by Laura Hengehold
7. Misunderstanding in Moscow   211   Introduction by Terry Keefe
8. My Experience as a Writer   275   Introduction by Elizabeth Fallaize
9 Short Prefaces to Literary Works   303   Introduction by Eleanore Holveck
10. Notes for a Novel   327   Introduction by Meryl Altman
Contributors   379
Index   385