The Woman Destroyed (Harper Perennial Modern Classics)

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This book is comprised of three stories: “The Age of Discretion”, “The Monologue” and “The Woman Destroyed.” In each one, a woman finds herself in an unexpected moment of transition. Whether the cause is the prelude to old age, resentment, or a betrayal, they all shy away from change at first until they eventually attempt to rationalize their suffering, hoping to make some sense of it all. All of them, for better or worse, in great part defined by marriage, motherhood, or work, seem to be asking themselves, ‘Was it all worth it?’. La forma è quella del diario dove la protagonista, Monique, annota gli avvenimenti aggiornandoci sul suo declino psicologico. Having devoted her whole self to her family, the wife fines herself faced with an utterly abandoned life. she is playing a losing game.

Upon the book’s 1969 publication in English, The Sunday Herald Times(London) wrote: “In three immensely intelligent stories about the decay of passion, Simone de Beauvoir draws us into the lives of three women, all past their first youth, all facing unexpected crises … suffused with de Beauvoir’s remarkable insights into women, The Woman Destroyedgives us a legendary writer at her best.” Each of these novellas is concerned with a desperately unhappy, no-longer-young woman whose life is going down the drain. Three such monologues, in succession, are an overdose. At the same time, none of the husbands or other characters in any of the stories take on a convincing life of their own. it's a collection of three stories about women past youth who, in short, are having lives they thought were settled suddenly cleaved into before and after. the first one was my favorite, five stars for it, but all three were clever and captivating and it's 4.5 altogether. The writing device of "The Woman Destroyed" is not as psychologically oppressive to me as that of "The Monologue," because it includes dialogue quoted from various people and therefore is not a completely closed monologue. However, Monique's obsessions don't interest me much, and no advice that I would consider practical emerges until the very end, when Monique visits her younger daughter, Lucienne, in New York City:Simone de Beauvoir declared herself an author and a midwife of partner Jean Paul Sartre’s intellectual endeavors, rather than a philosopher. In her eyes, she wove complex existentialist and feminist ideology into her fiction and writing, rather than using her writing as a vehicle to disseminate her philosophies. Suffused with de Beauvoir’s remarkable insights into women, The Woman Destroyed gives us a legendary writer at her best. Includes "The Age of Discretion," "The Monologue," and "The Woman Destroyed." Simone de Beauvoir was a French author and philosopher. She wrote novels, monographs on philosophy, political and social issues, essays, biographies, and an autobiography. She is now best known for her metaphysical novels, including "She Came to Stay" and "The Mandarins", and for her 1949 treatise "The Second Sex", a detailed analysis of women's oppression and a foundational tract of contemporary feminism.

La femme rompue“, The Woman Destroyed, is written by one of the most controversial feminists, Simone de Beauvoir. The book was originally published in 1967. De Beauvoir did this by design. The first line of the story reads “The Monologue is her form of revenge.” She knows how agonizing it must be to endure the seemingly endless soliloquy, so she employs it to make a point. De Beauvoir demands the attention of the reader, challenging her to persevere through an avalanche of disarrayed thoughts and words. She claims space for herself, knowing that she deserves it. Alexander Thorp Suffused with de Beauvoir’s remarkable insights into women, The Woman Destroyed gives us a legendary writer at her best. Includes “The Age of Discretion,”“The Monologue,” and “The Woman Destroyed.” Alone with her husband, she gradually becomes aware of his concealments and actual lies that hide the fact that he is not really “eaten up by his profession”that's enough for me to read anything in and of itself, including but not limited to golf magazines, industrial catalogs, and the grocery lists of my least favorite neighbor (WHY ARE YOUR PARTIES ALWAYS ON WEEKDAYS, YES I KNOW I SOUND LIKE A GRUMPY OLD MAN IN THE FIRST HALF OF A FEEL-GOOD FAMILY FILM)...but in addition to that, simone de beauvoir is a stunning writer with a true sense of people. And then, there is the memory of her daughter, dead by her own hand at fifteen. She vows she would have made that daughter into a fine girl, asking nothing, only giving. When they buried their daughter, she cries out that they really buried her. The woman gives one scream after another of rage and despair and loneliness, until there is more than enough. Monique, nel primo racconto narra di come si sia spezzata ed io non posso fare a meno di pensare che anche le altre due storie si congiungono in questo aggettivo: With two short pieces followed by the novella 'The Woman Destroyed', she charts commonalities: women who live through others, who lose touch with their inner selves, who collapse into depression (or, in one case, a kind of pathological malice) when their props are removed or flawed. Betrayals are everywhere: from sons and daughters, from husbands and friends, from life itself.

Several years ago, shortly after finishing “The Mandarins”, Simone De Beauvior's tour de force novel, I came across an article titled: “Are Good Books Bad for You?” I immediately thought of De Beauvior’s fiction. Like nothing else I’ve ever read, her fiction has the ability to influence my emotions and my opinions in a deep and powerful way. It’s nearly dangerous, I think, the depth at which she strikes chords in her readers. Reading “The Woman Destroyed”, I was reminded that all great writing is a warning, or at the very least, veiled advice on how one might attempt to live a meaningful life.

Simone de Beauvoir draws us into the lives of three women, all past their first youth, all facing unexpected crises. Three long stories that draw the reader into the lives of three women, all past their first youth, all facing unexpected crises. E’ il momento in cui si scopre l’architettura fallace su cui ci si era appoggiati e quando si vive completamente addossati a qualcuno o a qualcosa, si sa che nel momento in cui il sostegno manca si cade rovinosamente.

Un’autrice che conoscevo solo nella sua versione saggistica mi si è rivelata in una prosa calda, profonda ed indimenticabile.L’ultimo è un monologo che ha il suono di un grido disperato, basta leggerne l’epigrafe e la prima riga per capirlo: Bisogna sempre aspettare che lo zucchero fonda, che il ricordo svanisca, che la ferita rimargini, che il sole tramonti, che la noia si dissipi. Strana cesura tra questi due ritmi. Le mie giornate fuggono al galoppo, e in ciascuna d’esse languisco.” Hayatı, aile kavramını, anne olmayı sorgulayan 3 kadının hikayesini anlatmış Beauvoir. yıkılmış üç kadın. Okuduğunuz şeyler içinizi sıkıyor biraz. Kadın olmak, birey olabilmek, var olabilmek hakkında detaylıca düşünüyorsunuz. Running from friend to friend, the wife becomes less and less sure of herself as she allows her husband to share his life with the other woman. Where everything had been secure and tidy, suddenly everything is disintegrating.