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I learned that Simone de Beauvoir was one smart cookie. I learned about existentialism for the first time and absuridty and the French resistance and Paris bars. I took this book to Paris and read it there. I went to the bars and cafes and read it there. I was on a late and horrible honeymoon and st Leggi tutto

A lot of people appear to dislike Les Mandarins , which I think is a pretty excellent novel, so let me try and explain what I think is good about it. To me, it's basically about what happens to people (particularly to women) when they realize that they are no longer young. This has several consequenc Leggi tutto

I might be alone in really loving this book. I'm not sure if I understand what is not to love. This book is a bright light in a period of self-important post-war literature-- our 1984s and Wastelands-- in that it carefully avoids the moral preachiness and overabundant heavy-handed symbolism by which Leggi tutto

" - Nuestros generales no economizan en material humano...- Cuestión de prestigio -dijo-. Si todavía queremos jugar a la gran potencia, necesitamos un número correcto de muertos. " Nunca me habia parado a pensar lo que debe ser reconstruir los ideales de un pais devastado después de una ocupación traum Leggi tutto

Simone de Beauvoir’ın İkinci Dünya Savaşı ile başlayıp; ABD’nin Vietnam müdahalesi, Kore Savaşı, Fransız kolonisinin dağılması, Gulag’ın ortaya çıkışı ve solun Avrupa’daki bölünmesi gibi olaylarla, bir dönemin siyasi ve entellektüel yapısına ışık tutan kitabı. Bütün bu olayları da entellektüel kesim Leggi tutto