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BEAUVOIR, Simone de (1908–1986).
See original version (French)
6 - BIS
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BEAUVOIR, Simone de (1908–1986).
See original version (French)
Estimate €500 - €700
Voluntary lot
Description
BEAUVOIR, Simone de (1908–1986).
Autograph MANUSCRIPT, [circa 1926–1930]; 2¼ pages, in-4, in blue ink (small tears at the fold).
Description:
These pages relate to her early, unfinished and largely autobiographical novel-in-progress, *Départ*.
‘Waking up in the morning: a grey October sky. […] A friend suggests an outing: only two places available. Yvonne gives her place to her sisters: disgust and detachment; a refusal of pleasure. Her mother is busy; Yvonne will be left alone […] barrenness, futility”… She goes to collect her sister Christiane from her class; the two sisters stroll along the Boulevard Saint-Michel and in the Luxembourg Gardens… “Yvonne sitting on a bench… […] deep sympathy for the scattered life around her – everything has meaning; her own happiness matters little to her: and in this renunciation she touches upon supreme joy. She breathes in this solemn and simple happiness. Tomorrow’s struggles, discouragement – she will face them all because of this faith in this very moment””... Etc.
See original version (French)
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