Wartime Diary

“The revelations in Beauvoir’s Wartime Diary are stunning, stimulating, and exciting.” Kelly Oliver, editor of The French Feminism Reader and The Portable Kristeva “There is nothing to compete with Beauvoir’s Wartime Diary; the translation is clear, jargon-free, and engaging. A very significant contribution to Beauvoir scholarship, it is also an amazing eyewitness testimonial of daily life in Paris under the German occupation. Once I started reading it, I literally couldn’t put it down.” Claudia Card, author of The Cambridge Companion to Simone de Beauvoir

Simone de Beauvoir (1908–86) was a French existentialist philosopher who employed a literary-philosophical method in her essays, including Ethics of Ambiguity (1946) and The Second Sex (1949), as well as in her novels, multivolume autobiography, and other works. Sylvie Le Bon de Beauvoir, adopted daughter and literary executor of Simone de Beauvoir, is the editor of Lettres À Sartre and many other works by Beauvoir. Margaret A. Simons is a professor and chair of philosophy at Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, and the author of Beauvoir and The Second Sex: Feminism, Race and the Origins of Existentialism. Anne Deing Cordero is professor emerita of French at George Mason University.