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The Woman Destroyed
In three “immensely intelligent stories about the decay of passion” (The Sunday Herald Times [London]), Simone de Beauvoir draws us into the lives of three women, all past their first youth, all facing unexpected crises.
Enthralling as faction, suffused with de Beauvoir’s remarkable insights into women, The Woman Destroyed gives us a legendary writer at her best....more
Enthralling as faction, suffused with de Beauvoir’s remarkable insights into women, The Woman Destroyed gives us a legendary writer at her best....more
Paperback, 256 pages
Published
August 12th 1987
by Pantheon
(first published 1967)
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"Una donna spezzata" - Simone de Beauvoir (1967)
Probabilmente, a 25 anni anni, era arrivato il mio momento per Simone de Beauvoir.
"Una donna spezzata" non si può leggere e basta, o almeno non si può leggere senza uscirne completamente devastati; questa lettura è stata per me uno stillicidio di lacrime. Mai titolo fu più azzeccato: ho capito di essere una donna spezzata.
I motivi non sono importanti, ma all'interno di questo libro troverete tutta l'essenza dell'esser donna; ne troverete addirittu...more
Probabilmente, a 25 anni anni, era arrivato il mio momento per Simone de Beauvoir.
"Una donna spezzata" non si può leggere e basta, o almeno non si può leggere senza uscirne completamente devastati; questa lettura è stata per me uno stillicidio di lacrime. Mai titolo fu più azzeccato: ho capito di essere una donna spezzata.
I motivi non sono importanti, ma all'interno di questo libro troverete tutta l'essenza dell'esser donna; ne troverete addirittu...more
I really liked the short stories in When Things of the Spirit Come First so I read these three stories. They are all from the perspectives of older women who are dealing with doubt and change. I couldn't get into the first 2, and, though I felt more for the woman in the third one, whose husband gradually cheats on her and then leaves her, it was frustrating to read because I really wanted her to find herself again in the midst of all the difficulty and she never does. Well, maybe at the end ther...more
This is kinda fascinating, so earthy and adult, not what I'm into - no monsters, murders or mal-bouffe. Which is to say, it's French, so the impeccable lives these characters aspire to is alien to me. But they at least have the decency to be incapable of the cool infidelity I associate stereotypically of the French and instead collapse in inward storms of ugly recrimination and tortured second guessing, thereby reinforcing my suspicion that I don't know enough about the French to have an opinion...more
Si alguien pensaba que Sartre era depresivo debería leer a su novia... Me gustaron mas los dos primeros relatos "monólogo" y "la edad de la discreción". En la mujer rota está la anti-tesis de la mujer autónoma y moderna, además es una crítica muy profunda a las debilidades femeninas, realidades crudas acerca de la dependencia hacia lo masculino y la soledad en la que se puede caer cuando se olvida de sí misma para convertirse únicamente en un accesorio de la pareja
Three stories, 'The Age of Discretion', 'Monologue' and 'The Woman Destroyed' make up this volume. 'The Age of Discretion' deals with ageing, loss, and a woman's refusal to accept her son's career choice as she stares down the tunnel of age. 'Monologue' was unreadable, a woman's rant through New Year's eve celebrations, she's in her forties, all alone, bitter, twisted. By far the most powerful piece was 'The Woman Destroyed'. Monique is forty-four, happy in her long marriage to Maurice. The nove...more
زنی که داستان پیرامون ماجرای او بنا شده زنی است ساده و معمولی اما در مجموع این زن هیچ شباهتی به سیمون دووبوار روشنفکر و صاحب قلم و پراوازه ندارد
Modernariato.
Tre donne, tre racconti, «Una donna spezzata» è il titolo del primo, gli altri due sono «L'età della discrezione» e «Monologo«, un'escalation di reazioni e sensazioni: dallo sgomento e dal senso di impotenza di Monique, una moglie che scopre il tradimento del marito, alla delusione e alla ribellione della madre di Philippe tradita negli ideali dal figli che ha 'amorevolmente' coltivato per tutta la vita, alle escandescenze del lungo e delirante monologo di Murielle, sola con il rimo...more
Tre donne, tre racconti, «Una donna spezzata» è il titolo del primo, gli altri due sono «L'età della discrezione» e «Monologo«, un'escalation di reazioni e sensazioni: dallo sgomento e dal senso di impotenza di Monique, una moglie che scopre il tradimento del marito, alla delusione e alla ribellione della madre di Philippe tradita negli ideali dal figli che ha 'amorevolmente' coltivato per tutta la vita, alle escandescenze del lungo e delirante monologo di Murielle, sola con il rimo...more
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Tramite tre storie di donne, diverse per temi, per stili di scrittura, per epiloghi, Simone ci racconta situazioni in cui sicuramente ogni donna si è ritrovata almeno una volta: la pazza gelosia verso il proprio marito, che si scopre avere un'amante, la sensazione di non aver più il perfetto controllo della propria vita, i sentimenti di odio verso altre persone, e come se non bastasse il confronto diretto con gli altri familiari, con gli amici voltafaccia.
In questo libro non ci viene presentata...more
In questo libro non ci viene presentata...more
Three stories about three different women, each undergoing her own life crisis brought about by age and role in society. De Beauvoir does a fantastic job (from my male perspective) of balancing honest dilemmas unique to women without hedging or overreaching. Nothing is simplified, though the women appear to me to be complete, complex and conflicted people--very real characters with very real problems and concerns, struggling to make sense of those problems and concerns.
I think de Beauvoir's fem...more
I think de Beauvoir's fem...more
Това е книга, чието заглавие е изключително показателно и за съдържанието - "Сломената жена"... Та това са размислите на една сломена жена. Не тъжна, не отчаяна, а именно сломена. Изключително интересно е да проследиш как с напредването на сюжета, тя потъва все по-дълбоко в терзанита си, как мислите й се променят, как самата тя се променя.
Вълнуваща е книгата - изживях я. И ми беше мъчно, и се ядосвах, и протестирах вътрешно.
Вълнуваща е книгата - изживях я. И ми беше мъчно, и се ядосвах, и протестирах вътрешно.
Sep 01, 2012
Graham Jeacocke
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The second of the collection of three stories has grasped me: the titled, 'Monologue'. For me it paints how incredible the human being is. What the monologue represents here is a non hearing behind the scenes of how most of us acts and lives. It is the incredible ability to seize the right information at the right time to produce the right results (e.g. starting a conversation, reacting to something etc) It's like looking under a microscope at blood. The more magnification - the more we understa...more
La Femme Rompue its a three short stories book that tells the lives of three different women sharing the same crisis: getting old and the fear of being forgotten. De Beauvoir describes in a very rough way their daily lifes, their relationship with their partners and the solitude, loneliness that relationship now means.
I cannot say there is a happy ending somewhere in this book, I cannot say it is a book about love either, I think it is the mere reflection of a life decision this three women had...more
Dura, cruda,¿real?. Pero de una realidad fea, nauseabunda, sin edulcorante. Una realidad que toda mujer vive alguna vez y de la que nadie le advirtió que viviría; una realidad que todas, ingenuamente, creen que jamás vivirán. Una obra triste que se engancha en el corazón y lo estruja lentamente, que ahoga la voz, oh!, Simone que dura eres. Abres los ojos de las mujeres con fríos golpes de derechazo. Eres mejor boxeadora que contadora de fábulas Disney. Eres la que le hubiera dado una pistola a l...more
La edición de Edhasa de 'La Mujer Rota' incluye la novela del mismo título, 'La Edad de la Discreción' y 'Monólogo'. La primera es el diario escrito por una mujer de mediana edad que descubre la infidelidad de su marido. La segunda, el relato de una mujer que se asoma a su jubilación. En ambas resulta increíble la capacidad de Beauvoir para explorar la psicología de sus personajes y describir sus sentimientos con precisión de cirujano. El 'monólogo' está escrito sin comas, me imagino que para re...more
I belong to the type of person who loves characters above all. I want very human figures and I want to feel with them and I want them to surprise me and remind of of the fact that no formula is ever going to let me understand what an individual is. But this depth and this humanity cannot end up on the extreme of randomness. Simone de Beauvoir's third story in this book has had me thinking about the protagonist of the story for weeks. I felt so strong for her. I worried about her. I asked myself...more
Every story in this book grows on you eventually, each one in its own way. And not only do they grow upon you, but they also hit you. You get to drink and learn from them. In fact, I think some of the sentences written by the main character of "The Woman Destroyed", which is the last one of the stories, will remain with me (hopefully) forever. Apart from that, what I really enjoyed about the book is how Simone de Beauvoir proves you don't need to write an essay to talk out loud about feminism an...more
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زن وانهاده ، سیمون دوبوار
چیزی پشت در کمین کرده است، اگر تکان نخورم باز نخواهد شد، بیحرکت ماندن برای همیشه متوقف کردن زمان و مکان و زندگیست. ولی میدانم که تکان خواهم خورد، در به آرامی باز خواهد شد، و آنچه را پشت در است خواهم دید، آینده... در آینده باز خواهد شد، به آرامی. به طور حتم اکنون بر آستانهی آن ایستادهام. جز این در و آنچه پشت آن کمین کرده است چیزی ندارم. میترسم. نمیتوانم کسی را به کمک بخواهم. میترسم... قسمتی از رمان وانهاده اثر سیمون دوبووار
مجموعه داستان «زن وانهاده» شامل سه داستان...more
چیزی پشت در کمین کرده است، اگر تکان نخورم باز نخواهد شد، بیحرکت ماندن برای همیشه متوقف کردن زمان و مکان و زندگیست. ولی میدانم که تکان خواهم خورد، در به آرامی باز خواهد شد، و آنچه را پشت در است خواهم دید، آینده... در آینده باز خواهد شد، به آرامی. به طور حتم اکنون بر آستانهی آن ایستادهام. جز این در و آنچه پشت آن کمین کرده است چیزی ندارم. میترسم. نمیتوانم کسی را به کمک بخواهم. میترسم... قسمتی از رمان وانهاده اثر سیمون دوبووار
مجموعه داستان «زن وانهاده» شامل سه داستان...more
Четири, четири, но като се замисля, дали да не е три и половина или направо три. Там има една нещастна девойка от някакво френско сиропиталище. Какво става с нея? Май това не е съвсем важно. Нещастната дама с разбито сърце, нашата Моник, бързо забравя за момичето, което много се надява на съчувствие и помощ. Добре е все пак да има логика. Малко претупана ми се вижда работата.
А езикът твърде обикновен (дали от превода?)На места даже смущаващо елементарен. Да видим по-нататък.
А езикът твърде обикновен (дали от превода?)На места даже смущаващо елементарен. Да видим по-нататък.
Jun 20, 2007
AlegraMarcel
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3 of 5 stars
Recommends it for:
anyone who likes wretchedly depressing books.
This book contains three short stories, each of them about a "Woman Destroyed." Two are utterly depressing, and one is incoherent. The middle story was stream of consciousness babbling by a mad woman character, and I couldn't even finish it. The first story was depressing, and compelling enough to finish. The third story, the title story, was very compelling, defintely a page-turner, but also depressing.
This third story, A Woman Destroyed," tells the tale of a woman whose children have left hom...more
This third story, A Woman Destroyed," tells the tale of a woman whose children have left hom...more
This is a brilliant collection of Simone's short stories. Presumably it's autobiographical so her discussions with her husband are discussions with Satre, making it even more interesting to me. I really related to these stories which is really worrying, as both Simone and her husband were very unbalanced in my opinion, they overthought everything to a ridiculous degree.
I gave this book 5 stars, but I didn't enjoy it. If a book can move me the way this one moved me, I consider it a great book. However, I felt so bad for the characters in this set of 3 short stories (one in particular) that I finished it literally feeling angry! I was glad to finish it.
La cotidianidad relatada en profundidad es lo que genera empatía...y lágrimas.
Encontré esto en un blog respecto al libro y me encantó la última frase para resumirlo. "En este libro hay tres narraciones, independientes entre si. Sin embargo, comparten mas de una cosa: la protagonista de las tres historias es siempre una mujer y la atmósfera de las tres historias, el telón de fondo de cada pagina, es la desolación, la angustia, los cuestionamientos, los auto reproches, la sensación abrumadora de q...more
Encontré esto en un blog respecto al libro y me encantó la última frase para resumirlo. "En este libro hay tres narraciones, independientes entre si. Sin embargo, comparten mas de una cosa: la protagonista de las tres historias es siempre una mujer y la atmósfera de las tres historias, el telón de fondo de cada pagina, es la desolación, la angustia, los cuestionamientos, los auto reproches, la sensación abrumadora de q...more
"Je les connais ces jeunes femmes "dans le vent". On a un vague métier, on prétend se cultiver, faire du sport, bien s'habiller, tenir impeccablement son intérieur, élever parfaitement ses enfants, mener une vie mondaine, bref réussir sur tous les plans. Et on ne tient vraiment à rien. Elles me glacent le sang."
Her intricate psychological portrayals of women in different stages of their lives is layered and rich. She obviously has a deeper understanding of human nature. By the end of the 3rd part however, I was left feeling somewhat empty.
Tre storie diverse di donne di fronte ad una grande crisi interiore. L'ho letto la prima volta a 20 anni, la seconda a 50 (o giù di lì ...). Decisamente consigliato in questa seconda fase della vita (o terza?)
This is probably my most recommended book for any woman (or man who should learn a thing or two) to read. De Beauvoir's three short stories provide a glimpse into the lives of three women whose worlds are seriously altered by their relationships with men. Sometimes you may find yourself thinking "Get rid of him! He's awful!" followed by the realization that you have probably put up with something similar in a relationship.
I was in Europe and a total mess when I was reading this book. If you are...more
I was in Europe and a total mess when I was reading this book. If you are...more
I'm a little ashamed to confess I like this woman, but the truth is: I finished the book and asked how the hell she knew so much about me when I wasn't even born.
HISTORIAS CRUDAS, ENTRELAZADAS POR EL EGOÍSMO Y EL MIEDO, PROTAGONIZADAS POR MUJERES QUE POR SUS DECISIONES SE VEN SUMERGIDAS EN EL INFIERNO DEL SÍ MISMO Y LOS OTROS
"La donna spezzata è la vittima stupefatta della vita che ella stessa si è scelta: una dipendenza coniugale che la lascia priva di tutto". Simone de Beauvoir
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"Simone de Beauvoir was a French author and philosopher. She wrote novels, monographs on philosophy, politics, and social issues, essays, biographies, and an autobiography. She is now best known for her metaphysical novels, including She Came to Stay and The Mandarins, and for her 1949 treatise The Second Sex, a detailed analysis of women's oppression and a foundational tract of contemporary femin...more
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