- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Foreword to the Beauvoir Series
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Introduction
- Four Days in Madrid
- Portugal Under the Salazar Regime
- Poetry and Truth of the Far West
- Introduction
- Must we burn sade?
- Introduction
- Right-Wing Thought Today
- Introduction
- Merleau-Ponty and Pseudo-Sartreanism
- Introduction
- Preface to <i>Djamila Boupacha</i>
- Introduction
- In France Today, Killing Goes Unpunished
- Introduction
- Preface to <i>Treblinka</i>
- Syria and its Prisoners
- Solidarity with Israel
- Preface to <i>Shoah</i>
- Introduction
- A Walk Through the Land of Old Age
- Contributors
- Index
- Production Credits
Introduction
Introduction
- Chapter:
- (p.295) Introduction
- Source:
- Political Writings
- Author(s):
Susan Rubin Suleiman
- Publisher:
- University of Illinois Press
These four short essays, written over a twenty-year period, are pièces de circonstance, each one linked to a specific occasion: the publication of a book by a young author, an op-ed piece for a daily newspaper, a symposium on Israel organized by left-wing Jewish intellectuals, the appearance of a film that would become revered around the world. Beauvoir’s essays here are modest efforts, in two cases simply brief prefaces to a much longer work; but read consecutively, they offer an excellent glimpse into the evolution of French public discourse about the Holocaust and about Israel. They also show Beauvoir’s own unwavering commitment to thinking about the implications and consequences of the major atrocity of the twentieth century, as well as her personal interest in the Jewish state....
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Foreword to the Beauvoir Series
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Introduction
- Four Days in Madrid
- Portugal Under the Salazar Regime
- Poetry and Truth of the Far West
- Introduction
- Must we burn sade?
- Introduction
- Right-Wing Thought Today
- Introduction
- Merleau-Ponty and Pseudo-Sartreanism
- Introduction
- Preface to <i>Djamila Boupacha</i>
- Introduction
- In France Today, Killing Goes Unpunished
- Introduction
- Preface to <i>Treblinka</i>
- Syria and its Prisoners
- Solidarity with Israel
- Preface to <i>Shoah</i>
- Introduction
- A Walk Through the Land of Old Age
- Contributors
- Index
- Production Credits
