Simone de beauvoir a biography deirdre bair

An expansive read, but well worth the time. To touch on the author, Bair’s, actual construction--it read in journalistic style but was sectioned into chapters that left you with whole ideas and themes within Beauvoir’s life.

I appreciated that, as some biographies I've read often resigned to bait-and-switch, and though that approach may propel you throughout fiction, in biography you lose some of the sense of growth, change and large periods of time building upon each other to create a complete portrait of the subject.

As for Beauvoir herself, this book is very keen to emphasize that Beauvoir was very much philosophically dependent on Sartre for most of her life. However, I interpreted Beauvoir’s firm role as reminding Sartre of the ideas of Being and Nothingness as her own philosophy--the fact that she did not constantly move with his own philosophical fluctuation shows that she has convictions of her own, and that in many ways the