Noble Style (Volume 1 & 2)

Author: Simone de Beauvoir
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Publish Date: 2000-04-01
Features: This book is a magnificent masterpiece by Simone de Beauvoir, written after The Second Sex, depicting the fate of intellectuals. With a powerful and incisive pen, the author profoundly portrays the lives of a group of figures in post-World War II French intellectual circles who are lost yet striving: there are writers who, despite enduring hardships, remain steadfast in their belief in life; there are psychoanalysts who disdain fame yet never cease to feel restless; there are philosophers who are bold and progressive but ultimately end in obscurity; there are singers who yearn for physical intimacy and experience a complete revival of their sensuality. With the coldness of a philosopher and the tenderness of a female writer, the author vividly and movingly depicts their pursuits and disillusionments, hopes and disappointments, descents and risings, making this novel a mirror reflecting that era.