Simone de Beauvoir and the art of loss

Re:Simone de Beauvoir and the art of loss by troad on Monday July 31, 2023 @05:43AM (#36940418)

I have a deep respect for Simone de Beauvoir, so I clicked this link with interest, but I cannot find anything interesting in this article. It reads like a cross between a Tumblr post and a freshman essay. The writing is stilted, and the literary references are tenuous at best. If the article is trying to convey ideas, I am not sure what those ideas are, and if it is trying to create an emotional state, I don't think it succeeds. Not to be too ungenerous, but I half expected a recipe to follow the article.

For anyone interested, I would recommend simply picking a Simone de Beauvoir book yourself. They're not nearly as impenetrable as they're made out to be, and they contain much more meaning. (de Beauvoir is no Derrida, which I mean as a compliment.)

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Re:Simone de Beauvoir and the art of loss by JKCalhoun on Monday July 31, 2023 @09:43AM (#36942330)

I can see where you're coming from — but perhaps you are not the target audience for the piece. I know of Simone de Beauvoir only from a Lloyd Cole lyric from the 80's and the article has piqued my interest in her.

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Re:Simone de Beauvoir and the art of loss by mdp2021 on Monday July 31, 2023 @09:53AM (#36942474)

I have only recently found on these pages a new promising source, The Collector.

It publishes divulgational articles, mostly about History, Philosophy and the Arts.

If you may be interested in e.g. Simone de Beauvoir, you could check the articles selected with:

https://www.thecollector.com/search/beauvoir/

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Re:Simone de Beauvoir and the art of loss by Obscurity4340 on Tuesday August 01, 2023 @04:51AM (#36953856)

What's the différance? [I'll leave now]

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