La Force de l’âge
Paris, Gallimard, October 21, 1960.
1 vol. (140 x 205 mm) of 622 pp. Half red morocco with corners, gilt fillets on covers, smooth spine, gilt title, date gilt at foot, top edge gilt, original wrappers and spine preserved (binding signed Alix).
First edition.
One of 115 copies on vélin pur fil Lafuma-Navarre paper (no. 64).
One of 115 copies on vélin pur fil Lafuma-Navarre paper (no. 64).
Two years after Mémoires d’une jeune fille rangée, Simone de Beauvoir continued with La Force de l’âge the autobiographical project she had not originally conceived as a cycle.
The Mémoires ended with the young woman’s success in the agrégation and her meeting with Jean-Paul Sartre. La Force de l’âge resumes the narrative in 1929 and carries it through to the Liberation of Paris in 1944: fifteen years during which a young teacher becomes a writer, builds with Sartre a relationship that overturns the conventions of the couple, and sees History erupt violently into an existence until then dominated by the pursuit of individual freedom.
Bookplate of Emmy Joubert.
Spine very slightly faded.
#25870
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