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Simone et moi

Comment is free celebrates Simone de Beauvoir's 100th birthday with a series of blogs about the writer
  • Lynne Segal

    Mother courage

    Lynne Segal

    Simone et moi: She truly lived the ideal, and the pain, of an politically autonomous woman, becoming the role model of a generation in the 1960s

  • Simone de Beauvoir

    Simone de Beauvoir: Letting down the sisterhood

    Joan Smith
  • Une magnifique folie à deux

    AC Grayling
  • Why Simone de Beauvoir's work still resonates with women

    Elizabeth Fallaize

    Elizabeth Fallaize: Simone et moi: Her work still resonates with women because the struggle between autonomy and femininity De Beauvoir described continues

  • An experiment in living

    Lisa Appignanesi

    Simone et moi: De Beauvoir's life was a project weighed with an intelligence that still speaks to us, louder even than today's celebrity gossip

  • 100 years young

    Agnes Poirier

    Agnes Poirier: Simone et moi: The lady in a turban is still revered in France and respected as an intellectual above all else

  • Source of inspiration

    Beatrix Campbell

    Beatrix Campbell: Simone et moi: De Beauvoir was a celebrity, not because of her love life but because she belonged to an intelligentsia which no longer exists

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