Tout compte fait
Paris, Gallimard, (August 23) 1972.
1 vol. (150 x 215 mm) of 511 pp. and [1] f. In wrappers, uncut.
First edition. One of the first 40 copies on white vélin de Hollande, no. 34.
Simone de Beauvoir, then sixty-four years old, resumes and completes the account of her memoirs, twelve years after Mémoires d’une jeune fille rangée, La Force de l’âge and La Force des choses. This volume is not merely an autobiographical continuation but a lucid reckoning in which Beauvoir revisits her intellectual and political struggles. Tout compte fait stands out for its graver tone: the polemical vigor has not disappeared, but it is now joined by a meditation on time, aging, memory and posterity.
A fine copy.
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