The earth had need of me
Joanna Biggs: A nice girl like Simone, 16 April 2020
Becoming Beauvoir: A Life
by Kate Kirkpatrick.
Bloomsbury, 476 pp., £20, August 2019,978 1 350 04717 4 Show More
by Kate Kirkpatrick.
Bloomsbury, 476 pp., £20, August 2019,
Parisian Lives: Samuel Beckett, Simone de Beauvoir and Me, a Memoir
by Deirdre Bair.
Atlantic, 347 pp., £18.99, February 2020,978 1 78649 265 4 Show More
by Deirdre Bair.
Atlantic, 347 pp., £18.99, February 2020,
Diary of a Philosophy Student, Vol. II: 1928-29
by Simone de Beauvoir, translated by Barbara Klaw.
Illinois, 374 pp., £40, June 2019,978 0 252 04254 6 Show More
by Simone de Beauvoir, translated by Barbara Klaw.
Illinois, 374 pp., £40, June 2019,
“... wavering between three men; the new memoir by Bair describes a cold, drunk, grumpy old woman; Kate Kirkpatrick’s biography uses the posthumous sources to show where Beauvoir was inconsistent, obfuscatory or even mendacious in her own accounts of herself. I wanted my heroine back. I hadn’t read Beauvoir’s four-volume autobiography – Memoirs ... ”
