num_pages: 624
description: Sobre el fondo del mundo teatral y artístico del París de la primera mitad del siglo XX, Simone de Beauvoir recrea con sólido talento la creación, evolución y disgregación de un triángulo amoroso formado por dos adultos y una jovencita que, a su vez, sirve a la autora para poner en cuestión el modelo burgués de pareja y de familia. En esta impactante novela aparecen ya los grandes temas que caracterizan la obra de Simone de Beauvoir (la libertad, la acción y la libertad individuales), y la profundidad de los personajes y la exploración acerca de sus sentimientos que lleva a acabo la autora convierten La invitada en una de sus mejores obras.Set in Paris on the eve of World War II and sizzling with love, anger, and revenge, She Came to Stay draws on Simone de Beauvoir's relationship with Jean-Paul Sartre and the affair that almost destroyed it. It digs deep into the changes wrought in the soul of a woman and a city soon to fall. Although Françoise considers her relationship with Pierre an open one, she falls prey to jealousy when the gamine Xavière catches his attention. The moody young woman from the countryside pries her way between Françoise and Pierre, playing up to each one and deviously pulling them apart, until the only way out of the triangle is destruction.
language: Spanish; Castilian
title: La invitada
titlecomplete: La invitada
characters: Xavière (She Came to Stay), Pierre (She Came to Stay), Gerbert (She Came to Stay), Elisabeth (She Came to Stay), Françoise (She Came to Stay)
genres: Classics, France, Feminism, Philosophy, Modern Classics, Novels, Literature, French Literature, Fiction, Womens
ratings_count: 4630
places: Paris
publisher: Editora y Distribuidora Hispano Americana, S.A.