Biography
A native of Paris named Simon de Bovwar was a sequence of existential directions in philosophy and one of the founders of the political weekly "New Times". In addition, the woman became famous as an activist of the French movement of feminists, the civilian wife Jean-Field Sartra, as well as the lover of the laureate of the American Book Prize - the writer-nomanist Nelson Olgrena.Childhood and youth
Simon-Lucy Ernestina-Marie Britran de Bovwar was born on January 9, 1908 in Paris in Paris in the family of hereditary aristocrats belonging to the genus of the Gilome from Shampo. Her father was the secretary of the prosperous law firm, and the mother - a devout and zealous Catholic, who was the heiress of the financier known for the surname of Brassso.
Embed from getty imagesSince childhood, Simona, who was given to the care of the nuns from the educational institution of chickens, was preparing for respectable life in society, and she thought that he would marry a prince or, at worst, for some bourgeois.
However, due to the ruin of the head of the family, this far-reaching plans were not destined to come true, and the baby, formerly diligent pupil, was finally buried brilliant dreams. Sitting behind the books of the field of Claudel and Moris Barres, de Bovwar decided to become a popular writer and in a short time prepared for admission to Sorbonne, as well as on courses of literature and philology in the Sainte-Marie de Neuilly educational institution.
In 1927, Simon, which became one of the few women who received a university diploma, brought friendship with the future philosopher-sociologist Claude Levi-Strauss, Existentialists Rene Mayo, Jean-Paul Sartre and a representative of Phenomenology Maurice Merlot-Ponti.
They had a significant impact on the girl's career and her subsequent biography and forced to attend the Higher Normal Pedagogical School of France to pass Agrégation, or a competitive exam in a specialty. Successfully coping with this test, de Bovwar became a teacher of philosophy and created a number of literary works, and also organized a magazine about politics, popular during the "Sidia".
Books
In the late 1930s, Simona undertook the first attempt to publish his own essay, but the collection called the "Government of the Spirit" was not adopted by any publisher. Then the woman wrote a novel "Guest", filled with the philosophical ideas filled with his colleagues, and in 1943 he became the first of the published work.In this work, the ambiguous events of the French policy of the time, Simona drawn the picture of the Schizophrenic Schizophrenic painting and put the history of strange romantic relations, the prototype of which served life. Creating a book, de Bovwar tried to overcome the jealousy to a new passion of his own lover and through the awareness of the difference between passion and communication came to understand what existentialism is.
Embed from getty imagesThe desire to abandon the traditional image of the submissive woman and create a heroine, contrary to conventions capable of the free manifestation of their own emotions, led to the creation of the book "Pierra and Zineas", printed in 1944. In it, the writer concluded that any action is associated with the threat of failure and defeat, and a person who regularly takes him, is obliged to accept and go to risk.
Another product from the bibliography of this period, which described the events of French resistance and published under the name "Blood of others", was devoted to the problem of people's responsibility for their own decisions. Outside the ocean, he was considered an existential textbook and recognized one of the best written simon books.
Personal life
According to contemporaries, Simon was happy in his personal life, especially after acquaintance with the beloved, which was Jean-Paul Sartre. For the years, held together, between a man and a woman were free relationships, which brought to the flirt with minors and the formation of a trio and steam.
Embed from getty imagesAmong the people with whom the writer and her partner turned the novels were students Natalie Sorokina, Bianca Lamblen, Jean-Laurent Bost and Olga Kazakevich. And after the visit of De Bovwar to the United States of America, where her famous photography in front of the mirror was made, a Frenchwoman's dedicated friend became the writer Nelson Olgren.
Death
The last period of the life of De Bovwar spent in Paris, the sharp form of pneumonia was the cause of her death in 1986.Embed from getty imagesThe story of the writer was told in the art film "Lovers of Cafe de Flor", filmed by the director Ilan Durand Koen, and the famous French jubilee was presented to the 100th anniversary called Le Nouvel Observateur.
Bibliography
- 1943 - "Guest"
- 1944 - "Pyrrh and Zineas"
- 1944 - "Blood of others"
- 1946 - "All people are mortals"
- 1947 - "For Moral ambiguity"
- 1949 - "Second Paul"
- 1954 - "Mandarins"
- 1958 - "Memories of Blagovospitarian Maiden"
- 1960 - "Power of maturity"
- 1963 - "The Force of Things"
- 1970 - "Old age"