A previously unpublished novel by famed feminist and theorist Simone de Beauvoir that was hailed as “too intimate” during her lifetime is set to be released in France in the fall and the U.S.
and U.K. next year, according to The Guardian.Five years before Beauvoir’s benchmark feminist work The Second Sex was published, she penned a more personal story in Les Inséparables, based on a “passionate and tragic” friendship she had when she was young with Elisabeth “Zaza” Lacoin, who died of