America Day by Day Read Online By Simone de Beauvoir
| Title | : | America Day by Day |
| Author | : | Simone de Beauvoir |
| Format | : | Paperback |
| Page | : | 408 pages |
| ISBN | : | 0520210670 |
Here is the ultimate American road book, one with a perspective unlike that of any other In January 1947 Simone de Beauvoir landed at La Guardia airport and began a four month journey that took her from one coast of the United States to the other, and back again Embraced by the Cond Nast set in a swirl of cocktail parties in New York, where she was hailed as the pretti Here is the ultimate American road book, one with a perspective unlike that of any other In January 1947 Simone de Beauvoir landed at La Guardia airport and began a four month journey that took her from one coast of the United States to the other, and back again Embraced by the Cond Nast set in a swirl of cocktail parties in New York, where she was hailed as the prettiest existentialist by Janet Flanner in The New Yorker, de Beauvoir traveled west by car, train, and Greyhound, immersing herself in the nation s culture, customs, people, and landscape The detailed diary she kept of her trip became America Day by Day, published in France in 1948 and offered here in a completely new translation It is one of the most intimate, warm, and compulsively readable texts from the great writer s pen.Fascinating passages are devoted to Hollywood, the Grand Canyon, New Orleans, Las Vegas, and San Antonio We see de Beauvoir gambling in a Reno casino, smoking her first marijuana cigarette in the Plaza Hotel, donning raingear to view Niagara Falls, lecturing at Vassar College, and learning firsthand about the Chicago underworld of morphine addicts and petty thieves with her lover Nelson Algren as her guide This fresh, faithful translation superbly captures the essence of Simone de Beauvoir s distinctive voice It demonstrates once again why she is one of the most profound, original, and influential writers and thinkers of the twentieth century.On New York I walk between the steep cliffs at the bottom of a canyon where no sun penetrates it s permeated by a salt smell Human history is not inscribed on these carefully calibrated buildings They are closer to prehistoric caves than to the houses of Paris or Rome On Los Angeles I watch the Mexican dances and eat chili con carne, which takes the roof off my mouth, I drink the tequila and I m utterly dazed with pleasure
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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 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 feminism 
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Here is the ultimate American road book, one with a perspective unlike that of any other In January 1947 Simone de Beauvoir landed at La Guardia airpo
408 pagesSimone de Beauvoir
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