Volume 21, Number 13 · August 8, 1974
Simone Says…
By V.S. Pritchett
All Said and Done
by Simone de Beauvoir, translated by Patrick O'Brian
Putnam, 463 pp., $10.00
In her new book Simone de Beauvoir reflects upon the events of the last ten years of her life since 1965 when Force of Circumstance, the third volume of her autobiography, was published. It was followed by an encyclopedic study of old age and that theme crops up many times in the present volume written when she was sixty-four. She has had to defend herself against the incredible personal venom of her French critics of that book, for the French have a cabaret tradition of ridiculing the elderly with a spite uncommon in other countries. Speaking on the radio one envious cad pretended to apologize for a review of a book of hers in these words:
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