Memories of a Well-behaved Girl Author: [France] Simone de Beauvoir Translator: Luo Guolin Shanghai Translation Publishing House

* The Birth of a Beaver Simone de Beauvoir Memoirs of Youth

* "Being myself, I am willing to embark on this great adventure."

* Whether I am twenty, thirty, or fifty, I will say "thank you" and "sorry" to the little girl I once was.

In addition to her internationally renowned theoretical masterpiece The Second Sex, French thinker Simone de Beauvoir also wrote four volumes of memoirs, which are so extensive that she is considered the greatest memoirist in France.

"Memories of a Well-behaved Girl" is the first of these, published in France in 1958. It records Beauvoir's life in childhood and adolescence, from her birth to the completion of higher education in 1928, a span of twenty years.

Born in 1908 into a wealthy and conservative middle-class family in Paris, France, Beauvoir had a happy and peaceful childhood. She was precocious and loved reading, and she was aware of the uniqueness of her gender and identity at an early age. Her friendship with Sasha was a major event in Beauvoir's youth, and they became key figures in each other's exploration of the world and life. As her family fell into decline, Beauvoir had to work to earn money. She passed the teacher qualification exam with excellent grades, obtained the precious key to independence, and continued her university studies while teaching. Just as Beauvoir gained freedom and walked into the vast world, her good friend Sasha died suddenly, and Beauvoir's youth ended.

Beauvoir's memoirs are the most complete record of Beauvoir's extraordinary life, and the most faithful portrayal of Beauvoir's mental journey at each stage of her life.

Beauvoir's memoir series is a "big history" with an extraordinary vision, recording vivid "individuals" in the great era, restoring precious slices of life, and telling unique and wonderful situations.

Beauvoir was not born, she was made.

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