The life of Simone de Beauvoir

An exemplary student of a Catholic school, an ambitious student, a school teacher, a partner of Jean-Paul Sartre, a writer, a philosopher, an existentialist, an icon of feminism — all this is about Simone de Beauvoir. She spent many hours in libraries and coffee shops, lived in hotels, went to the mountains, rode a bicycle, traveled to other countries, gave lectures, went to parties, had many girlfriends and boyfriends and several love stories. Her philosophy developed in parallel with her life: from youthful rebellion to a mature awareness of responsibility for others, from the desire to gain personal freedom to the desire to fight for it for all. Simone de Beauvoir was different, but her intelligence, energy and love of life always made her interesting and attractive to others. Alois Prinz paints a portrait of this extraordinary woman against the background of the era that shaped her and was shaped by her.