Les Belles Images

"At first glance, this book has all been done before, and more intensely. But its final effect is cumulative and peculiarly moving....Simone de Beauvoir has the true novelist's gifts of selecting detail and creating individuals whilst refusing to sum up situations. Laurence, seen in retrospection depth across the platitudes that describe her experience, is a complex human being, questing and anxious with several qualitatively different relationships that shift and change her. Underneath the mockery of stereotyped Freudian and moral images and containing them, is a simple detailed picture of one individual's sexual and moral uses of her energy. Laurence's own language, the easy 'placing' of feeling, are inadequate and wrong, but her loves and hates are real and Simone de Beauvoir embodies them with grace and economy."Beauvoir, Simone de is the author of 'Les Belles Images' with ISBN 9782070362431 and ISBN 2070362434.