Word: beauvoirs
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...stories in this collection are so many small tragedies. Far from being mere slices of life, or glimpses of fantasy or of psychological freaks, they demonstrate once again that the short story is not only for light jugglery. The publishers invoke the names of Mary McCarthy and Simone de Beauvoir to suggest the quality of Mrs. Lessing's talents, but she lacks the argumentativeness of either intellectual lady. She does not argue: she points. Only a theorem or a diagram could be as bare-or as indestructible-as her strongly jointed fictional essays...
...that recent history-world wars and totalitarianism-has provided evidence on his side of the case, De Sade has been enjoying a revival. He has fascinated such unsadistic modern writers as Albert Camus, Edmund Wilson, Simone de Beauvoir, and Roman Catholic Historian Christopher Dawson...
...partner than in repressing them, for they would reappear unconsciously in more virulent forms: legal punishment, revolution, war. In an era of freer discussion of sex and its meaning, the reasons for revival of interest in De Sade are perhaps best indicated by the opinion of Simone de Beauvoir: "Sade drained to the dregs the moment of selfishness, injustice and misery. He chose cruelty rather than indifference. This is probably why he finds so many echoes today, when the individual knows that he is more the victim of men's good consciences than of their wickedness...
...rotted too. Says a Greenwood merchant: "Beckwith was reared in the sort of place white people ought not to live in." Yet the premises were cluttered with mementos of the family's better days: a letter to Beckwith's grandmother from Jeff Davis: pieces of china from Beauvoir, the Davis mansion near Biloxi. To Beckwith, these must have suggested lush plantations, colonnaded mansions-and white supremacy...
...untouchable Chicago. Through it all, Algren (complaining about Americans who complain about the lack of ham and eggs for breakfast) remains about the most militantly ham-and-eggs American traveler since the innocents went abroad in Mark Twain's generation. The book is dedicated to Simone de Beauvoir, doyenne of French existentialists-a gesture of some generosity in the face of Algren's appearance as a non-hero in De Beauvoir's last novel...