At one hundred, we are told, a book becomes a classic; at one hundred Simone de Beauvoir has surely become a legend. And yet, like all legends, she remains something of an enigma, yet to be discovered. To be discovered, perhaps, in a way similar to her own attempt at self-discovery in Hard Times (the second volume of The Force of Circumstance), which results in a moving encounter with symptoms, repressions, and defenses that reveal those darker unrepentant forces―dreams and nightmares―that haunt her life. To discover is also to uncover the pages of a partly-written life that recurs in a succession of dreams and nightmares. As Beauvoir puts it: “In my dreams … there are objects that have always recurred” as “receptacles of suffering … the hands of a watch that begin to race [moved] by a secret and appalling organic disorder; a piece of wood bleeds beneath the blow of an ax … I feel the terror of these nightmares in my waking hours, if I call to mind the walking skeletons of Calcutta orthose little gourds with human faces―children suffering from malnutrition.”
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Simone de Beauvoir
Engagements, Contexts, Reconsiderations
Homi Bhabha
In French Politics, Culture & Society
- Published (Print):
- 01 Jun 2010
- Article Type:
- Introduction
- Pages:
- 1–3 (3 total)
Simone de Beauvoir on Existentialist Theater
Dennis A. Gilbert
My article focuses on Le Théâtre existentialiste (Existentialist Theater) by Simone de Beauvoir, recently translated and published in the volume of the Beauvoir Series on her literary writings. The first part introduces the original sound recording of this text and the circumstances behind its possible production in New York City in 1947 and my discovery of it at Wellesley College in 1996. The second part analyzes the divisions of Beauvoir's remarks as she presents Jean-Paul Sartre, Albert Camus, and their principal plays from the period of the Occupation: The Flies, No Exit, and Caligula. The third part then evaluates certain of Beauvoir's key concepts in terms of how they were able to define adequately the substance of existentialist theater for a postwar American audience and whether they remain valid for a more contemporary theatrical public some six decades later.
In Sartre Studies International
- Published (Print):
- 01 Dec 2012
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 107–126 (20 total)
Ethics and Violence
Simone de Beauvoir, Djamila Boupacha, and the Algerian War
Judith Surkis
This article situates Simone de Beauvoir's involvement in the case of Djamila Boupacha, an FLN militant who was tortured by the French Army in 1960, in the context of the repeated revelations of torture in course of the Algerian War. Drawing on Beauvoir's writings on ethics and other contemporary denunciations of torture, the essay illuminates how Beauvoir worked to overcome wide-spread public “indifference.” By focusing public attention on the Army's sexually degrading treatment of Boupacha, Beauvoir figured torture as a source of feminine and feminizing national shame.
In French Politics, Culture & Society
- Published (Print):
- 01 Jun 2010
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 38–55 (18 total)
Book Reviews
Sarah Horton and Adrian van den Hoven
anyone interested in Camus's work. Adrian van den Hoven University of Windsor Yan Hamel, En Randonnée avec Simone de Beauvoir . Boréal, Montréal, Canada, 2020. Can $25,95. Ceci n'est pas une biographie ! Au contraire, c'est l
In Sartre Studies International
- Published (Print):
- 01 Dec 2020
- Article Type:
- Book Review
- Pages:
- 90–99 (10 total)
Beauvoir and Writing as the Creation of the Self
Memoirs, Diaries, Biography
Liesbeth Schoonheim
Kate Kirkpatrick, Becoming Beauvoir: A Life (London: Bloomsbury, 2019), xiv +476 pp. ISBN: 9781–350–04717–4 Simone de Beauvoir, Diary of a Philosophy Student: Volume 2, 1928–29 . The Beauvoir Series. Edited by Barbara Klaw, Sylvie Le Bon
In Sartre Studies International
- Published (Print):
- 01 Jun 2020
- Article Type:
- Review Article
- Pages:
- 77–88 (12 total)
Érotisme, désir et sadisme chez Sartre
Jean-Pierre Boulé
compris les rapports sexuels. Dans la fiction, on trouve de nombreux passages sur la sexualité. Nous avons également de multiples interviews qui portent sur le sujet, le film Sartre par lui-même , ainsi que les entretiens avec Simone de Beauvoir d
In Sartre Studies International
- Published (Print):
- 01 Jun 2017
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 38–59 (22 total)
De Beauvoir, Existentialism and Marx
A Dialectic on Freedom
Angela Shepherd
According to Toril Moi, ‘freedom – not identity, difference or equality – is the fundamental concept in de Beauvoir’s feminism’. 1 Simone de Beauvoir insists that women and men are free human beings capable of independent, creative action. However
In Sartre Studies International
- Published (Print):
- 01 Jun 2018
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 70–90 (21 total)
Coalition as a counterpoint to the intersectional critique of The Second Sex
Emma McNicol
, Stephanie Berruz, and Penelope Deutscher on the Symposium on Gender, Race and Philosophy blog. Bauer, Broeck, Berruz and Deutscher respond to Belle's 2014 essay, “Comparative and Competing Frameworks of Oppression in Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex
In Sartre Studies International
- Published (Print):
- 01 Dec 2021
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 101–108 (8 total)
“One Is Not Born a Dramatist”
The Genesis of Sartre’s Theatrical Career in Writings to, with, and by Beauvoir
Dennis A. Gilbert
information, namely writings to, with, and by Simone de Beauvoir. In this regard, I will look at the exchange of letters between Sartre and Beauvoir, her wartime diary, an article and a recording by Beauvoir from the 1940s in which she presents Sartre
In Sartre Studies International
- Published (Print):
- 01 Dec 2017
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 19–35 (17 total)
Virile Resistance and Servile Collaboration
Interrupting the Gendered Representation of Betrayal in Resistance Movements
Maša Mrovlje
theoretical framework, I draw on Simone de Beauvoir's critique of masculinist myths of femininity in The Second Sex, combined with work in contemporary feminist scholarship on the oppressive constructions of female subjectivity in debates on war and violence