num_pages: 359
description: 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.She 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 time in France politically.
language: English
title: Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter
titlecomplete: Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter
genres: Classics, Autobiography, Feminism, France, Philosophy, Biography Memoir, Biography, French Literature, Memoir, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 14880
places: Paris
publisher: Harper Perennial Modern Classics