{"product_id":"force-of-circumstance-by-simone-de-beauvoir","title":"'Force of Circumstance' by Simone de Beauvoir","description":"\u003ch4 data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"507\"\u003eCovering the years after the Second World War and following on from \u003cem data-start=\"260\" data-end=\"291\"\u003eMemoirs of a Dutiful Daughter\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem data-start=\"296\" data-end=\"315\"\u003eThe Prime of Life\u003c\/em\u003e, the book tracks Beauvoir through postwar intellectual Paris, anti-colonial struggle, fame, exhaustion, her relationship with both political commitment and private life.\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"509\" data-end=\"1066\"\u003eWhat makes this volume compelling is how unsentimental it is about its own myth. Beauvoir can be taken as a marble feminist monument, but here she shows who she really is. The memoir moves between travel, philosophical reflection, public scandal, existential doubt, and brutally lucid self-analysis. Sartre is present throughout, of course, but so too are Algeria, capitalism, celebrity intellectual culture, ageing bodies, and the slow erosion of certainty.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1068\" data-end=\"1459\"\u003eIt also reads now as a document of twentieth-century intellectual life before theory became professionalised into academic performance. Beauvoir still believed ideas had material consequence. Even at her most self-critical, there is movement in the writing — a sense of thought trying to keep pace with a changing world and failing just enough to remain human.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1068\" data-end=\"1459\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePenguin paperback edition, 1968, translated from the French by Richard Howard. Moderate age toning and handling wear to wraps, with visible creasing and edge wear consistent with age; interior clean and remarkably well preserved for a 1960s Penguin paperback. A strong reading copy with excellent shelf presence.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"bower studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44570246185043,"sku":null,"price":13.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0689\/0268\/2707\/files\/Yourparagraphtext_66.png?v=1778049863","url":"https:\/\/bowerbooks.com\/products\/force-of-circumstance-by-simone-de-beauvoir","provider":"bower books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}