Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter (Masterplots II: Nonfiction Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Simone de Beauvoir
- First Published: 1958
- Type of Work: Autobiography
- Time of Work: 1908-1929
- Setting: Paris
- Principal Characters: Simone de Beauvoir, Georges de Beauvoir, Francoise de Beauvoir, Elizabeth (Zaza) Mabille, Jacques Laiguillon, Jean-Paul Sartre
- Genres: Nonfiction, Autobiography, Memoir
- Subjects: Maturation or coming of age, Family or family life, Memory, Philosophy or philosophers, Adolescence, France or French people, Authors or writers, Conservatism, Youth, Existentialism, Conformity, Intellect
- Locales: Paris, France
Form and Content
From 1956 to 1958, Simone de Beauvoir composed the first of a series of autobiographical volumes that covered the course of her life. Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter dealt with her childhood and youth to the age of twenty-one; it was followed by La Force de l’age in 1960 (The Prime of Life, 1962), which dealt with her life from 1929 to 1944, La Force des choses in 1963 (Force of Circumstance, 1964), which brought her life up to the date of publication, and a final volume, a summary, Tout compte fait (1972;...
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