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The title story, The Woman Destroyed, is written as a diary over six months or so. A woman has a husband and two daughters, one locally and one in the US that she seldom sees. Her husband admits to her that he is having an affair.
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12 de ago. de 1987 · In "The Monologue," a rich, spoiled woman, home alone on New Year's Eve, pours out a lifetime's rage and frustration in a harrowing diatribe. Enthralling as fiction, suffused with de Beauvoir's remarkable insights into women, The Woman Destroyed gives us a legendary writer at her best.
- Simone de Beauvoir, Patrick O'Brien
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26 de ago. de 2022 · The Woman Destroyed. by. Simone de Beauvoir. Publication date. 1971. Publisher. Editions Gallimard. Collection. internetarchivebooks; printdisabled.
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From a review by Inna Uhlig of The Woman Destroyed by Simone de Beauvoir in The Baltimore Sun, March 23, 1969: In this English translation of La Femme Rompue, Simone de Beauvoir presents three novellas, or long short stories, that describe women over forty, each delving into her own unhappiness: The Age of Discretion In “The Age of Discretion,” the...
Though the reviewer above gives helpfully neat synopses of these stories, it’s evident that the she found the characters distasteful. Scanning recent reader reviews, contemporary readers find much in this book that resonates. On the book’s discussion page on Goodreads, one reader notes, “Reading The Woman Destroyed, I was reminded that all great wr...
“Tragedies are all right for a while: you are concerned, you are curious, you feel good. And then it gets repetitive, it doesn’t advance, it grows dreadfully boring: it is so very boring, even for me.” . . . . . . . . . . “My life was hurrying, racing tragically toward its end. And yet at the same time it was dripping so slowly, so very slowly now,...
About The Woman Destroyed. One of the most influential thinkers of her generation draws us into the lives of three women, all past their first youth, all facing unexpected crises in these three “immensely intelligent stories about the decay of passion” (The Sunday Herald Times).
1 de mar. de 2019 · Back home, she finds her apartment terribly empty, and instead of relishing her freedom she just feels lonely. A day or so later she finds out that Maurice, her husband, has been having an affair with Noellie, a woman he works with. She is devastated.
