Simone de Beauvoir: love letter

A collection of letters revealing the most passionate and candid inner life of love in Simone de Beauvoir’s life, from age thirty-nine to fifty-six. Private literary portraits of artists who defined the twentieth century, including Camus, Colette, Giacometti, Piaf, and Jean Cocteau. Eulyoo Publishing has released Love Letters, a volume of 304 love letters Simone de Beauvoir, author of The Second Sex, often called the bible of modern women’s studies, sent to American novelist Nelson Algren over 17 years. Beauvoir, a leading French existentialist philosopher and feminist, was famous for maintaining her relationship with Jean-Paul Sartre for more than 50 years in the form of a “pact marriage,” free from the constraints of traditional marriage. Love Letters intimately captures the joys and sorrows of the love she shared with another man, not Sartre, from age thirty-nine to fifty-six. Beauvoir vividly and unreservedly depicts very private episodes involving celebrated cultural figures who shaped the twentieth century, including Albert Camus, Colette, André Gide, Alberto Giacometti, Jean Cocteau, Charlie Chaplin, and Édith Piaf, as well as their active lives amid a rapidly changing world. She does so because Beauvoir, at the center of the European arts scene of her day, kindly introduced her world to her lover Algren, who was living in Chicago. In this collection, readers encounter new sides of Beauvoir beyond her familiar image as intellectual and combative: a passionate and sensual woman in love, yet also considerate and affectionate, and a storyteller who warmly and wittily tells her lover about herself and the people around her.

Korean title: 연애편지

Korean author: 시몬 드 보부아르

Korean publisher: 을유문화사

ISBN-13: 9788932475080