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.

Author(s): Grace Joy Howarth, based on the novel by Simone de Beauvoir, translated by Lauren Elkin Running time: 2h approx France during the First World War. Nine-year-old Sylvie Lapage prays for ...

Hélène de Beauvoir is an ideal subject for the gallery—like the horses and nudes hiding in her abstractions, Hélène may be hidden in art history but look closer, and you’ll find her story.

The de Beauvoir sisters, just two years apart, had long been close and supportive of each others respective talents. In her memoir Souvenirs, Hélène recalled of Simone how, “I was her first ...

This is Hélène de Beauvoir: artist, feminist, forgotten sister of Simone. She is 45 in this photograph, and living in Milan – the wife of the diplomat Lionel de Roulet.

This is not about western culture wars, or debates over sex, gender, or sports. It is about the rights of every human being to be recognised and respected as themselves; to never be asked to deny ...

An overview of “Simone Weil: A Life in Letters,” edited and annotated by Robert Chenavier and André A. Devaux, about the French Jewish philosopher and author of “The Iliad, or The Poem of ...

Simone de Beauvoir Imagined Contemporary Womanhood in the 1960s Five decades ago, Simone de Beauvoir wrote “Les Belles Images.” The 1967 novel explains modern womanhood in a nutshell.

First, we meet Simone de Beauvoir, who – with her life partner Jean-Paul Sartre – is associated with “ existentialism ” (though Eilenberger writes that she avoids the term).

Simone de Beauvoir Institute celebrates 45 years The events coincided with the 45th anniversary of the Simone de Beauvoir Institute, the oldest women’s studies program in Canada. Established in 1978, ...

Zaza died prematurely of an illness, and de Beauvoir would always carry with her the gift of this precious love for a friend. Like a silent river flowing beneath the papers and theories that would ...