Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter

Synopsis

A superb autobiography by one of the great literary figures of the twentieth century, memoirs of a dutiful daughter offers an intimate picture of growing up in a bourgeois french family, rebelling as an adolescent against the conventional expectations of her class, and striking out on her own with an intellectual and existential ambition exceedingly rare in a young woman in the 1920s. Simone de beavoir describes her early life, from her birth in paris in 1908 to her student days at the sorbonne, where she met jean-paul sartre - 'the dream-companion i had longed for since i was fifteen'.