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Simone de Beauvoir (1908–1986).
Autograph manuscript, [circa 1926–1930]; 2¼ pages, folio size, in blue ink (small tears at the fold).
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Autograph manuscript, [circa 1926–1930]; 2¼ pages, folio size, in blue ink (small tears at the fold).
These pages are part of the unfinished, largely autobiographical early novel *Départ*.
‘Waking up in the morning: a grey October sky. […] A friend suggests an outing: only two places available. Yvonne gives her place to her sisters: disgust and detachment; a refusal of pleasure. Her mother is busy; Yvonne will remain alone […] barrenness, futility”… She goes to collect her sister Christiane from her lesson; the two sisters stroll along the Boulevard Saint-Michel and in the Luxembourg Gardens… “Yvonne sitting on a bench… […] great sympathy for this scattered life around her – everything has meaning; her own happiness is of no consequence to her: and in this renunciation she touches upon supreme joy. She breathes in this solemn and simple happiness. Tomorrow’s struggles, discouragement, she will face them because of this faith in this moment”... Etc.