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Digital Document
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Florida Atlantic University
Description
De Beauvoir's Existentialist works , primarily Pour une
morale de l'ambiguite and Existentialisme et la sagesse
des nations, and her feminist work Le Deuxieme sexe,
affirm that women are fully as capable of attaining
Existentialist authenticity and liberty as men. The
novels, however, portray women who often fail the
Existentialist ideal, and always fail the feminist ideal.
Indeed the major novels, including L'Invitee, Le Sang
des autres, Les Mandarins, suggest an almost inverse
relationship between feminist convictions and personal
success. Having chosen not to depict female characters
as social activists or revolutionaries but as women in
love, de Beauvoir presents unhappy lovers unable to
achieve independence from the dominant male. In accord
with Existentialist precepts of realism, De Beauvoir's
fiction illustrates not her feminist ideal hut her view
of women's contemporary condition.
morale de l'ambiguite and Existentialisme et la sagesse
des nations, and her feminist work Le Deuxieme sexe,
affirm that women are fully as capable of attaining
Existentialist authenticity and liberty as men. The
novels, however, portray women who often fail the
Existentialist ideal, and always fail the feminist ideal.
Indeed the major novels, including L'Invitee, Le Sang
des autres, Les Mandarins, suggest an almost inverse
relationship between feminist convictions and personal
success. Having chosen not to depict female characters
as social activists or revolutionaries but as women in
love, de Beauvoir presents unhappy lovers unable to
achieve independence from the dominant male. In accord
with Existentialist precepts of realism, De Beauvoir's
fiction illustrates not her feminist ideal hut her view
of women's contemporary condition.
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