La Femme Rompue / Monologue / L'Age de Discretion

by Simone de Beauvoir

Mass Market Paperback

Published January 1, 1973

About the author

Works of Simone de Beauvoir, French writer, existentialist, and feminist, include The Second Sex in 1949 and The Coming of Age , a study in 1970 of views of different cultures on the old.


Simone de Beauvoir, an author and philosopher, wrote novels, monographs, political and social issues, essays, biographies, and an autobiography. People now best know She Came to Stay and The Mandarins , her metaphysical novels. Her treatise, a foundational contemporary tract, of 1949 detailed analysis of oppression of women.

Reviews

[Pedro Janz · Rating 5 out of 5]

Monologue - 5/5

[Eliza · Rating 3 out of 5]

I am a big fan of these three short stories being combined as one piece - I think they all support each other and interweave really well. But what the bleeding hell, how did La Femme Rompue actually drag on for that long...? Maurice is the biggest gaslighter of all time and the narrator recurrently realises it and ignores it in an infuriating cycle of 'revelation' - captures the hopelessness of her position in the relationship well but is a frustrating read.