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'The Woman Destroyed' is a collection of three stories, each an exquisite and passionate study of a woman trapped by circumstances, trying to re-build her life.
In the first story, 'The Age of Discretion', a successful scholar fast approaching middle age begins to feel that 'life is going to take back everything it has given me' when her trouble-free existence is threatened by a double shock – her son's abandonment of the career she has chosen for him and the harsh critical rejection of her latest academic work. 'The Monologue' is an extraordinary New Year's Eve outpouring of invective from a woman consumed with bitterness and loneliness after her son and husband have left home. And finally, in the title piece, Simone de Beauvoir tells the story of Monique, trying desperately to resurrect her life (“I want to live a little for myself after all this time. I have plans by the dozen.”) after her husband confesses to an affair with a younger woman.
Compassionate, lucid, full of wit and knowing, Simone de Beauvoir's rare insight into the inequities and complexities of women's lives is unsurpassable.
“In these immensely intelligent stories about the decay of passion, Simone de Beauvoir shares with other women novelists the ability to write about emotion in the terms of direct experience. What is unique and supremely valuable in her work is the capacity to retain at the same time a coolness and critical detachment towards her material.”
SUNDAY TIMES
“Intensely readable, with the warmth and identification with the characters that made 'The Mandarins' so outstanding.”
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. One of the most influential thinkers of her generation draws us into the lives of three women, all past their first youth, all facing unexpected crises in these three immensely intelligent stories about the decay of passion (The Sunday Herald Times).Suffused with de Beauvoirs remarkable insights into women, The Woman Destroyed gives us a legendary writer at her best. Includes "The Age of Discretion," "The Monologue," and "The Woman Destroyed.""Witty, immensely adroit.These three women are believable individuals presented with a wry mixture of sympathy and exasperation." The Atlantic Three stories deal with a husband's adultry, a son's adoption of his wife's worldly attitudes, and a lonely, wealthy woman home alone on New Year's Eve. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9780394711034