But it's interesting that the same woman who finds freedom in having a week to herself while her husband is away at a business conference, is destroyed when she finds that he's been having an affair: the self-construction is striking - freedom is contingent on an overriding super-structure of being a wife-and-mother: take away that primary identity and Monique is adrift. Hayatı, aile kavramını, anne olmayı sorgulayan 3 kadının hikayesini anlatmış Beauvoir. yıkılmış üç kadın. Okuduğunuz şeyler içinizi sıkıyor biraz. Kadın olmak, birey olabilmek, var olabilmek hakkında detaylıca düşünüyorsunuz.

Non ipotecare il futuro. Facile a dire. Lo vedevo, il futuro. Si estendeva davanti a me a perdita d’occhio, piatto, nudo. Non un progetto, non un desiderio. Non avrei scritto piú. E allora, che cosa avrei fatto? Che vuoto, dentro di me, attorno a me. Inutile. I greci chiamavano i loro vecchi «mosconi». «Inutile moscone», si dice Ecuba nelle Troiane. Sono io. Sono rimasta folgorata. Mi domandavo come si possa riuscire ancora a vivere quando da se stessi non si spera piú niente.”A Frenchwoman who lived through almost all of the 20 th century, de Beauvoir was a writer of novels, essays, and biographies, an intellectual, social theorist, and political activist. Most famously known for The Second Sex , she laid the tract for contemporary feminism. It is impossible to understand de Beauvoir without mentioning her almost lifelong open relationship with Jean-Paul Sartre. The couple never got married, understandably rejecting the institutional constraints and purposeless of marriage. The existentialist undertones of de Beauvoir’s philosophy and lifestyle are carried over beautifully to the emotional devastation of the three women in The Women Destroyed . In “The Woman Destroyed”, Monique’s husband, Maurice, has confessed to having an affair and asks that she be okay with it. Taking advice from a close friend, Monique wills herself to allow the affair to continue, hoping in vain that Maurice’s midlife crisis will pass and that he’ll eventually spurn his mistress. But as time passes, the mistress slowly begins to take center-stage in Maurice’s life, so much so that

In “The Monologue”, the shortest of these stories, written in a stream-of-consciousness style, we read the feverish claim of a woman filled with rage and frustration after a lifetime of deceptions that perhaps she has forged for herself. A lifetime of pushing away the people she loves that seems hopeless.Bisogna sempre aspettare che lo zucchero fonda, che il ricordo svanisca, che la ferita rimargini, che il sole tramonti, che la noia si dissipi. Strana cesura tra questi due ritmi. Le mie giornate fuggono al galoppo, e in ciascuna d’esse languisco.” My overflowing leisure handed me the world and at the same time prevented me from seeing it. Just as the sun, filtering through the closed venetian blinds on a hot afternoon, makes the whole magnificence of summer blaze in my mind; whereas if I face its direct harsh glare it blinds me.” de Beauvoir è regista che filma voci e corpi che si sfaldano sotto il peso del crollo di un castello su cui poggiava tutta la loro vita. De Beauvoir plays with narrative form: a 1st person narrative, an inner monologue, a diary - and the three pieces build up an image of women and their fragile sense of identity and belonging. Simone de Beauvoir draws us into the lives of three women, all past their first youth, all facing unexpected crises.