T his is a new translation by Lauren Elkin of a shortish Simone de Beauvoir book, Les Belles Images, first published in 1966.

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In the wake of his failure to grab an Oscar for playing Leonard Bernstein in “Maestro,” Bradley Cooper plans to return to the bio-pic business by portraying the Chicago writer Nelson Algren, focusing ...

‘The Inseparables’ by Simone de Beauvoir is a timeless piece on female friendship set in post world war one France. The story follows the friendship of Sylvie and Andre from childhood to ...

In addition to their autobiographical writing and numerous revealing interviews, neither destroyed any of their private correspondence and journals, even when they did not make them look good. "So ...

In 1975, at the height of their fame, British band Slade made a feature film, Slade in Flame. The film was a critical and commercial failure at the time, but has built up a cult following over the ...

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The 1984 televised adaptation of ’’The Second Sex” by Simone de Beauvoir - and Marguerite Buras’s works, considered as monuments of a State… Of all the writing that emerged from the existentialist ...

But existentialist philosopher and writer Simone de Beauvoir’s autobiographical novella The Inseparables, celebrating her own brilliant friend Élisabeth Lacoin, was considered too intimate and ...

In 1949, philosopher and novelist Simone de Beauvoir wrote the groundbreaking The Second Sex, launching a disruptive discourse on women’s oppression and second-class citizenship. This film ...