Work · Simone de Beauvoir
All Said and Done
Beauvoir revisits autobiography through themes—formation, reading, travel, politics and relationships—rather than chronology alone.
Understanding the text
This final major memoir volume extends earlier ones without presenting a life as definitively closed.
Key points
- 01
Assessment
Self-narration involves changing emphasis and acknowledging altered perspectives.
- 02
Reading
Books and encounters form a lived intellectual history.
- 03
Politics
Relationships with collective movements change the interpretation of one's own path.
How to read it
Compare events already narrated elsewhere to see what the new arrangement reveals.
Editions & sources
- Consult the reference 1plato.stanford.edunew tab
- Consult the reference 2iep.utm.edunew tab
- Consult the reference 3gallimard.frnew tab
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