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Simone de Beauvoir | | Birth Date: |
January 9, 1908 | | Death Date: |
April 14, 1986 | | Place of Birth: |
France | | Place of Death: |
Paris, France | | Nationality: |
French | | Gender: |
Female | | Occupations: |
author, writer |
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 Biography of Simone de Beauvoir
1023 words, approx. 3.4 pages
 Simone de Beauvoir (1908-1986), a French writer, first articulated what has since become the basis of the modern feminist movement. She was the author of novels, autobiographies, and non-fiction analysis dealing with women's position in a male-dominated... summary from source:
 Biography of Simone (Lucie Ernestine Marie Bertrand) de Beauvoir
8428 words, approx. 28.1 pages
 Teacher, philosopher, political activist, and writer; autobiographer, essayist, journalist, novelist, and playwright; atheist, existentialist, and feminist, Simone de Beauvoir is one of the best-known French writers and thinkers of the twentieth century....
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 Artforum Mandarins
09/01/2007: 524 words, approx. 2 pages MANDARINS BY RYUNOSUKE AKUTAGAWA, TRANSLATED BY CHARLES DE WOLF BROOKLYN, NY: ARCHIPELAGO BOOKS. 255 PAGES. $16. In Ryunosuke Akutagawa's stories, the subjectivity of perception is often dramatized. His principal subjects-the gap between society and self; the conflict between tradition and modernity, religion and... summary from source:
The Independent - London Words: Mandarin
10/23/1994: 316 words, approx. 1 pages CHOP-CHOP time for mandarins: the Treasury wants to axe up to a third of its senior civil servants; other departments may follow. Mandarin carries a quiet note of contempt with it, which it used not to. It came originally from mantra, the Sanskrit for... summary from source:
 AP-Travel Online AAA's Latest Five-Diamond List
10/30/2006: 310 words, approx. 1 pages Ten new hotels and six new restaurants have been added to the list of lodgings and eateries receiving AAA's highest rating, five diamonds. The additions will be listed in the automobile association's 2007 TourBook guides and on AAA.com. They bring... summary from source:
The New York Observer Events for Thursday, January 25, 2007
1/24/2007: 297 words, approx. 1 pagesAt 8:30 a.m., the Crain's New York Business economic forecast breakfast takes place at the Sheraton New York. At 8:45 a.m., Hillary Clinton delivers the keynote address at the Mayors & Business Leaders Plenary Breakfast at the Capital Hilton Hotel in DC. At 9:30 a.m.,...
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 Critical Essay by Erica Harth
837 words, approx. 3 pages
[One] of the principal questions of Les Mandarins is whether or not literature is possible for the politically committed writer. (pp. 177-78) [It] was Simone de Beauvoir who discovered alienation as the specific anguish of the French writer during the years of the Algerian Revolution. As the number of massacres and tortures mounted in the mid-fifties, she was to experience for the first time the sense of being an exile in one's own land…. (p. 178)
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The Mandarins by Simone De Beauvoir | |
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