The Blood of Others
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- Paperback
288 pages
- Release Date
7 January 2025
Summary
Potent and vividly emotional, Simone de Beauvoir’s captivating novel questions freedom and individual responsibility in the face of brutality.
“These carefree faces, on which we allowed our smiles to spread, were for others the mask of tragedy.”
Jean Blomart, patriot leader against the German forces of occupation, waits throughout an endless night for his wounded lover, Hélène, to die. Told through memories of his and her life, The Blood of Others paints an intense an…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241696453 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0241696453 |
| Author: | Simone de Beauvoir |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 288 |
| Release Date: | 7 January 2025 |
| Weight: | 222g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 129mm x 18mm |
| Series: | Penguin Modern Classics |
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About The Author
Simone de Beauvoir
Simone de Beauvoir (1908-86) was a French philosopher, novelist and essayist, and the lifelong companion of Jean-Paul Sartre. De Beauvoir’s first book, L’Invitee, was published in 1943. In 1945 she published Le Sang des autres, a novel dealing with the question of political involvement. De Beauvoir’s breakthrough work was the semi-autobiographical Les Mandarins (1954), which won the Prix Goncourt. Roman Catholic authorities banned it and de Beauvoir’s feminist classic The Second Sex (1949), in which de Beauvoir argued that “one is not born a woman; one becomes one”.
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