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The Inseparables
- Narrated by: Rachel Bavidge
- Length: 3 hrs and 17 mins
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Summary
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Life without her would be death.
The lost novel from the author of The Second Sex.
The compulsive story of two friends growing up and falling apart.
Introduced by Deborah Levy.
When Andrée joins her school, Sylvie is immediately fascinated. Andrée is small for her age, but walks with the confidence of an adult. Under her red coat, she hides terrible burn scars, and when she imagines beautiful things, she gets goosebumps....
Secretly Sylvie believes that Andrée is a prodigy about whom books will be written.
The girls become close. They talk for hours about equality, justice, war and religion; they lose respect for their teachers; they build a world of their own. But they can't stay like this forever.
Written in 1954, five years after The Second Sex, the novel was never published in Simone de Beauvoir's lifetime. This first English edition includes an afterword by her adopted daughter, who discovered the manuscript hidden in a drawer, and photographs of the real-life friendship which inspired and tormented the author.
Translated by Lauren Elkin with an afterword from Sylvie le Bon de Beauvoir.
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- Margaret Horton
- 26-10-24
sensitivity of the narrator
the beautiful language and clear imagery, I always sensed an unhappy ending though which I didn't like
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- katy
- 21-01-22
Engaging narrative (but no intro or afterword )
If you enjoy this ,and you will, I would urge you to read When Things of the Spirit Come First, as this narrative forms the early bones of several of the stories in that accomplished collection. De Beauvoir's literature is often overlooked -not least by audible, where are the other novels?--but she's an engaging writer and you can clearly see how the anger in these early works crystallises to create The Second Sex. I've deducted a star from Audible because there is no introduction nor afterword and I was really looking forward to hearing Sylvie's rational for issuing this previously unpublished text.
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