![]() ![]() The book is a flow of memories, not structured into chapters or age brackets. “As Beauvoir’s stream of memories shows, we grow into our present by outgrowing our past” ![]() It seems almost as though she were recording her thoughts, feelings, and experiences at each age in the moment that she felt them – there is an awareness that even while writing up the memoirs of her childhood, she can still go back in her mind and become the same girl, who at the age of five felt a keen fear of the fact that she would grow up into a future, in which she would still be herself, but would also be a different ‘self’, a stranger. It is a book that charts the trajectory of her childhood and youth, and yet does so in a way that doesn’t make it feel removed from these moments. Fundamentally a study of identity, this book was no less of a personal experience for me as a reader, than it obviously was for Beauvoir herself. ![]() ” Simone de Beauvoir’s Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter is a remarkable inward look by a remarkable woman. “Be loved, be admired, be necessary be somebody. ![]()
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