Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter by Simone de Beauvoir

I was very pious I made my confession twice a month to Abbe Martin, received Holy Communion three times a week and every morning read a chapter of The Imitation of Christ between classes, I would slip into the school chapel and, with my head in my hands, I would offer up lengthy prayers often in the course of the day I would lift up my soul to my Maker. And the young Simone’s religious devotion is just as passionate as her love for her family and her interest in learning: Without any doubt, I had every reason to be pleased with what fate had brought me.” When she goes to school she throws herself wholeheartedly into her studies and is very proud when she receives praises and rewards for her academic achievements. She writes about her earliest years, “I though it was a remarkable coincidence that heaven should have given me just these parents, this sister, this life. She believes they are all perfect and can do no wrong and adores her family with an unwavering and almost romantic fervor. While reading Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter, the first in a trilogy of very detailed books about her life, I kept thinking that incandescent, intense, and passionate are the perfect words to describe Beauvoir even from a very young age.Īt the age of five or six Beauvoir has vivid memories and intense feelings of love and devotion towards the people who are closest to her: her parents, her younger sister and her nanny, Louise. OL767938W Page_number_confidence 97.04 Pages 374 Partner Innodata Pdf_module_version 0.0.20 Ppi 300 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20201201113401 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 440 Scandate 20201129034828 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 9780140087550 Tts_version 4.“Sartre corresponded exactly to the dream-companion I had longed for since I was fifteen he was the double in whom I found all my burning aspiration raised to the pitch of incandescence,” writes a young Simone de Beauvoir who is about to begin her most famous love affair. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 12:10:14 Associated-names Kirkup, Jack Boxid IA40008914 Camera USB PTP Class Camera Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier

Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter by Simone de Beauvoir