The Chicago-born curator Naomi Beckwith has been given free rein at the Palais de Tokyo to examine how American artists responded to thinkers from France. By Emily LaBarge “The Visionaries,” by ...
Intellectual, philosophical, literary, rebellious, Simone de Beauvoir spoke a mile a minute, and wrote quickly, too — novels, essays, a play, four memoirs. She was an atheist, bisexual, pioneer ...
Elsa Zylberstein (“Simone: Woman of the Century”) will star as the French feminist writer Simone de Beauvoir in a feature film that will be penned by Oscar-winning writer Christopher Hampton and ...
Simone de Beauvoir, born in 1908 in Paris, was the older of two daughters of a strict Catholic couple, and as a child dreamed of becoming a nun. Instead, she lost her faith when she was 14 and by her ...
Only 7% of LAist readers currently donate to fund our journalism. Help raise that number, so our nonprofit newsroom stays strong in the face of federal cuts. Donate now. Simone de Beauvoir is one of ...
Inseparable. By Simone de Beauvoir. Translated by Sandra Smith. Ecco; 176 pages; $26.99. Published in Britain as “The Inseparables”. Translated by Lauren Elkin. Vintage Classics; £12.99 IN 1958, IN ...
In Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter, Simone de Beauvoir remembers that as a child, she imagined her best friend, Élisabeth “Zaza” Lacoin, dying, and her schoolteacher announcing that Zaza had been called ...
“The Visionaries,” by Wolfram Eilenberger, examines the divergent theories of self and other developed in a time of crisis by Hannah Arendt, Simone de Beauvoir, Ayn Rand and Simone Weil. By Jennifer ...
Some results have been hidden because they may be inaccessible to you
Show inaccessible results
Feedback