Simone de Beauvoir's Biography

Author: Wu Kangru
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Publish Date: 2002-01-01
Features: She possesses the steel-willed determination that only a man can have, and she resolutely chose a thorny path of academia; she firmly believes that life is not about indulging in it, but about creating it; she considers the development and fulfillment of oneself, making oneself an irreplaceable individual, to be the greatest pride and joy in life. She pursues a new type of contractual relationship between the sexes, and she was Sartre's lover. She and Sartre founded existentialism, emphasizing an optimistic philosophy of life that achieves goals through action. She won France's highest literary award—the Goncourt Prize—for her book "Hemingway and His Generation." Her motivation for writing "The Second Sex" was to awaken humanity and guide men—she is the famous feminist Simone de Beauvoir.