"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 Highlights of the volume include a new translation of the 1945 play The Useless Mouths, the unpublished 1965 short novel "Misunderstanding in Moscow," the fragmentary "Notes for a Novel," and an eagerly awaited translation of Beauvoir's contribution to a 1965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,…mehr
"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 Highlights of the volume include a new translation of the 1945 play The Useless Mouths, the unpublished 1965 short novel "Misunderstanding in Moscow," the fragmentary "Notes for a Novel," and an eagerly awaited translation of Beauvoir's contribution to a 1965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.
Simone de Beauvoir; Edited by Margaret A. Simons and Marybeth Timmermann; Foreword by Sylvie Le Bon de Beauvoir
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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
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
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