num_pages: 360
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 political time.
language: English
title: Memoirs Of A Dutiful Daughter
titlecomplete: Memoirs Of A Dutiful Daughter
genres: Biography, France, Philosophy, French Literature, Memoir, Nonfiction, Feminism, Classics, Autobiography, Biography Memoir
ratings_count: 14890
places: Paris
publisher: Penguin Classic