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This is a new translation by Lauren Elkin of a shortish Simone de Beauvoir book, Les Belles Images, first published in 1966. The book’s aim is to identify the source of its heroine’s discontent.

This is a new translation by Lauren Elkin of a shortish Simone de Beauvoir book, Les Belles Images, first published in 1966. The heroine is Laurence, a copywriter for an advertising agency.

Simone de Beauvoir and Hélène de Beauvoir at one of her exhibition openings in the 1960s. ... At its inauguration in 1975, 65-year-old Hélène met 25-year-old Monteil via Simone and, ...

De Beauvoir essayed several artistic genres – watercolour, cubism and abstraction, as well as figuration. Whether she makes the genres distinctly her own could be questioned. The internet alas leaves ...

De Beauvoir was born in 1910, two years after Simone. When the girls were small they would play a game in which a heroine would triumph over an evil male villain. De Beauvoir always played the man.