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Simone de Beauvoir and the art of loss - New Statesman

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Sixty years ago, the French writer’s unflinching memoir of her mother’s death tested the limits of her existentialism.

When I told a friend of mine I was about to write this essay, she told me the following story. She works in film and one day recently she was researching a project about young people. She was sitting at the back of a classroom of adolescent school students when she heard the (male) teacher taking the class say, “OK, so there was this French writer guy called Simon de Beauvoir.” The day after she told me this, I read the following in a newspaper in a piece by the journalist Rachel Cooke: “When I went to university in 1988, feminism was wildly unfashionable… it was considered deeply uncool to ow

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