With an introduction from Deborah Levy
'Life without her would be death'
The lost novel from the author of The Second Sex published in English for the first time.
The compulsive story of two friends growing up and falling apart.
When Andree joins her school,Sylvie is immediately fascinated. Andree is small for her age,but walks with the confidence of an adult. Under her red coat,she hides terrible burn scars. And when she imagines beautiful things,she gets goosebumps... Secretly Sylvie believes that Andree is a prodigy about whom books will be written.
The girls become close. They talk for hours about equality,justice,war and religion; they lose respect for their teachers; they build a world of their own. But they can't stay like this forever.
Written in 1954,five years after The Second Sex,the novel was never published in Simone de Beauvoir's lifetime. This first English edition includes an afterword by her adopted daughter,who discovered the manuscript hidden in a drawer,and photographs of the real-life friendship which inspired and tormented the author.
Publisher: Vintage PublishingISBN: 9781784877187Number of pages: 176Weight: 127 gDimensions: 198 x 129 x 11 mm
MEDIA REVIEWS
'Gorgeously written,intelligent,passionate,and in many ways foreshadows such contemporary works as Elena Ferrante's My Brilliant Friend'- Oprah Daily
'A passionate and tragic autobiographical story'- Vanity Fair
'Here is an attentive and unintimate love,one that relishes the idea of imagining,but never knowing and never delimiting,the infinite expanses of another person's mind'- Merve Emre,New Yorker
'(An) absorbing novel... The Inseparables is a moving coming-of-age tale about two girls battling with who and what they want to be in 20th-century Paris'- Monocle
'In Lauren Elkin's fine translation,the lucid,sculpted prose can flare into starbursts of introspective sensuality. It touches and grips not just as a portrait of semi-requited teenage ardour...but because Beauvoir gives the torments of belief their due... Its focus and restraint show that,even in maturity,Beauvoir could write like a dutiful daughter of the French classics'- Boyd Tonkin,The Times
Simone de Beauvoir
Visit the Simone de Beauvoir author pageDeborah Levy
Deborah Levy is a British novelist,short story writer,playwright and poet,whose proficiency across multiple literary forms marks her out as one of the great contemporary literary figures. Levy has been shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize twice,for Swimming Home and Hot Milk.
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