SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR was born in Paris in 1908. In 1929 she became
the youngest person ever to obtain the agrégation in philosophy at
the Sorbonne, placing second to Jean-Paul Sartre. She taught at
lycées at Marseille and Rouen from 1931 to 1937, and in Paris from
1938 to 1943. After the war, she emerged as one of the leaders of
the existentialist movement, working with Sartre on Les Temps
Modernes. The author of several books, including The Mandarins
(1957), which was awarded the Prix Goncourt, Beauvoir was one of
the most influential thinkers of her generation. She died in
1986.
CONSTANCE BORDE and SHEILA MALOVANY-CHEVALLIER, both American, are
longtime residents of France and former teachers at the Institut
d’Etudes Politiques in Paris.
JUDITH THURMAN, author of Isak Dinesen and Secrets of the Flesh: A
Life of Colette, is a staff writer at The New Yorker.
"The effect of the new translation, which should be applauded, is
to make Beauvoir more herself ... still lively, still apropos."
—Slate
“This is the edition Beauvoir herself would have wanted, one so
true to the original that we can hear her voice in the text. Borde
and Malovany-Chevallier’s new translation is long overdue, and it
is a triumph.” —Margaret Simons, Distinguished Research Professor
Emerita, Southern Illinois University
“[Borde and Malovany-Chevallier’s translation] can be read with
confidence, enlightenment, and pleasure.... A significant step
forward and a remarkable achievement. So if you’re one of those
people who always meant to read The Second Sex—why not now?”
—Women’s Review of Books
“From Eve’s apple to Virginia Woolf’s room of her own, Beauvoir’s
treatise remains an essential rallying point, urging
self-sufficiency and offering the fruit of knowledge.”
—Vogue
"[A] long-awaited achievement." —"Book Bench," newyorker.com
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