La dialectique de l’Autre au prisme du genre dans l’œuvre de Simone de Beauvoir : analyse des récits de soi
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- This dissertation examines Simone de Beauvoir’s stance on the « Littérature des femmes », by both agreeing and turning away from it, and how the representation of the Other is portrayed in the former. Self-narratives written between 1945 and 1965 will be compared. The timespan is an important one for the author, as it marks the moment when she acknowledges the importance of l’ “Autre” in her life and when the dialectic of the alterity also appears in her work. The way the Other is talked about in regards of de Beauvoir’s women’s condition will be investigated through her autobiographical work La Force des choses and correspondences between her and her American lover Nelson Algren as well as partner Jean-Paul Sartre. The simultaneous study of the three texts provides a global vision of the author’s mind, her aim to use writing as a communication tool with others, and how she depicts the Other.