Thursday, August 3, 2017

All Said and Done (1972) by Simone De Beauvoir


The French-born Simone De Beauvoir (1908-1986) wrote a 4-volume autobiography, consisting of: Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter (1958); The Prime of Life (1960); Force of Circumstance (1963, sometimes published in two volumes in English translation: After the War and Hard Times); and All Said and Done (1972).

I began reading All Said and Done on 22nd June 2016. It's hard going. By 3rd Aug 2017 I'm still only on p365 of 463 pages.

Sunday 20th August 2017
FINALLY finished reading the book.
Very uneven. Needed SERIOUS editing.
No contents page.
No index.
However, I still glad I read this book. I filled a whole notebook with quotations from it.

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