DIED 25 YEARS AGO Simone de Beauvoir
'Since I stopped believing in God I had a great fear of death, and fear of death creates the precarious sense of life, and then comes the anxiety. "
"But rather than face the possibility of one's death, Simone de Beauvoir was filled with horror and anger when thinking of a world empty of their loved ones in which, in the absence disturbing, and not worth staying . In his affective world were crossing names of his mother, old friends of his youth and intense, especially that of Jean Paul Sartre, her partner. Given these deaths so close in recent times and was not afraid to reflect on their own: "Death is not a valid interlocutor and is an enemy to fight. So I do not think that is more frightening to me as well, she will sleep. " And on April 14 last she slept.
A youth obsession and maturity by death, to the anguish of the incorruptible finitude, Simone de Beauvoir, the Beaver, as they called their friends, opposes a life of hard strokes, the passions postponed.
She revealed the secret of his life was shaped by three pulses constants: a, Montparnasse, a practice, writing, a man, Sartre. Indeed, when she was a baby, and he enjoyed playing with dolls, also played to type.
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His thoughts were displayed in the writing, both in tests and fictions, adheres to the idea of \u200b\u200bAndré Gide, that 'being more individual is how universal it is. " The Beaver said, without giving rise to hesitation: "In the philosophy called existentialism, and which adhere the world is a totality destotalizada. This means that on the one hand there is a world that is the same for everyone, but that otherwise we are all in position with respect to him, and that this means our past, our class, our status, our projects: in short, the whole of what constitutes our individuality. And each situation involves, in one way or another, the whole world. "
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The lunge da Simone de Beauvoir to bourgeois culture and obscenely sexist, therefore, authoritarian obscenely on your continued solidarity with the marginalized and oppressed. When you see, for example, Algerian emigrants at the time of war are tortured rebels and participating in street demonstrations. When you see the Vietnamese people crushed by American bombs of napalm participates in the activities of the Russell Tribunal. When France said a war in Indochina, Dien Bien Phu greeted as a victory. When the Soviet Union pulled its tanks in Budapest and Prague public expressed outrage.
And she also knew, because he belonged to the oppressed majority mass-eluting meet the aspirations of women of this age. In The Second Sex, an essay that appeared in 1949, crumbling what being a woman in the eyes of others, explores the reality of women in both the physiology and studying the history and evolution of the feminine condition. Refuses to subordinate women's issues to other issues such as class struggle. Thus, erase the false barriers that separate the private from the political and included the former on the latter.
Sartre, partner
"The greatest achievement of my life is Sartre ', once said Simone de Beauvoir. With him, whom he met at the Sorbonne, with Paul Nizan and Maheu, built an original pair. Never lived together because they share the world knew not meant to live under one roof and they shared the world in a less petty. (...) Unfairly, when we talk about Simone de Beauvoir is attached inevitably nicknamed 'wife or companion of Sartre', as if his main achievement was to have lived with him for over fifty years. But the reality is that both had the exquisite privilege of accompanying one another. Moreover, it was what she did for herself. "
Part of the documentary about Simone de Beauvoir by Virginie Linhart
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