Moricheau-Airaud, Bérengère
How Annie Ernaux talks about Simone de Beauvoir in her novels
- 2019.
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Reading The Second Sex appears in Mémoire de fille from Annie Ernaux as source of contradictions, disjunctions, suspensions, all expressive of an ambivalence of its reception that persists since her other stories, and that oscillates the image of Simone de Beauvoir between a model and an agitator, in favor of a representation of her tutelary patronage.