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Simone De Beauvoir & Existential Phenomenology: a Bibliography Simone De Beauvoir & Existential Phenomenology: A Bibliography Ted Toadvine Emporia State University I. Primary Sources (Listed Chronologically) The following have been consulted for primary sources by Simone de Beauvoir: Bennett, Joy, and Gabriella Hochrnann. Simone de Beauvoir: An Annotated Bibliography. New York: Garland, 1988. (Interviews only.) Cayron, Claire. La nature chez Simone de Beauvoir. Paris: Gallirnard, 1973. Francis, Claude and Femande Gontier. Les ecrits de Simone de Beauvoir. Paris: Gallirnard, 1979. Simons, Margaret A., ed. Feminist Interpretations ofSimone de Beauvoir. University Park: The Pennsylvania State University, 1995. Moi, ToriI. Simone de Beauvoir: The Making ofan Intellectual Woman. Cambridge: Blackwell Publishers, 1994. Zephir, Jacques J. Le neo-feminisme de Simone de Beauvoir. Paris: Denoel-Gonthier, 1982. Of these, Les ecrits de Simone de Beauvoir, edited by Francis and Gontier, is the most comprehensive through 1977 and contains many useful summaries and quotations from obscure sources. 1926 Camet. Holograph Manuscript. Bibliotheque Nationale de France, Paris. 1927 Camet #4. Holograph Manuscript. Bibliotheque Nationale de France, Paris. 1928-29 Camet #6. Holograph Manuscript. Bibliotheque Nationale de France, Paris . 1929-30 Camet #7. Holograph Manuscript. Bibliotheque Nationale de France , Paris . 1943 L 'invitee. Paris: Gallimard. Translated as She Came To Stay, by Yvonne Moyse and Roger Senhouse. Cleveland: World Publishing, 1954. 206 TED TOADVINE 1944 "Jeunes agregee de philosophie de Beauvoirva presentersa premiere piece," interviewed by Yves Bonnat. Le Soir (13 October). "Un promeneur dans Paris insurge," in collaboration with J.-P. Sartre. Combat (28, 29, and 30 August; 1,2, and 4 September). Pyrrhus et Cineas . Paris: Gallimard. 1945 Les bouches inutiles. Paris : Gallimard. Translated as Who Shall Die, by Claude Francis and Femande Gontier. Florissant, MO: River Press , 1983. "C'est Shakespeare qu'ils n'aimentpas." Action (11 May). Reprinted inLes ecrits de Simone de Beauvoir, edited by Claude Francis and Femande Gontier, 324-6. Paris: Gallimard, 1979. "L'existentialisme et la sagesse des Nations." Les temps modernes 1, no. 3 (1 December): 385-404. "Idealisme moral et realisme politique." Les temps modernes 1, no. 2 (November) .Collected inL 'existentialisme et la sagesse des nations. Paris : Nagel, 1948. "La phenomenologie de la perception de Maurice Merleau-Ponty." Les temps modernes l(November): 363-67. "Le Portugal sous le regime de Salazar." Under the pseudonym Daniel Secretan, Combat (23 and 24 April): 1-2. Reprinted in Les ecrits de Simone de Beauvoir, edited by Claude Francis and FemandeGontier, 317-323. Paris: Gallimard, 1979. "Quatrejours aMadrid." Combat (14-15 April): 1-2. "Qu' est-ce que l'existentialisme? Escarmouches et patrouilles," interviewed by Dominique Aury. Les lettres francaises (1 December): 4. "Roman et theatre." Opera, no. 24 (24 October). Reprinted in Les ecrits de Simone de Beauvoir, edited by Claude Francis and Femande Gontier, 327-331. Paris: Gallimard, 1979. Le sang des autres. Paris: Gallimard. Translated as The Blood ofOthers , by Yvonne Moyse and Roger Senhouse. New York: Knopf, 1948. 1946 "Alcune domande a Jean-Paul Sartre e a Simone de Beauvoir," interviewed by Franco Fortini. II Politechnico (Milan)(July-August): 33-35. "Introduction aune morale de I'ambiguite." Labyrinthe, no. 20 (1 June). Collected in Pour une morale de I'ambiguite. Paris : Gallimard, 1947. Reprinted in Les ecrits de Simone de Beauvoir, edited by BIBLIOGRAPHY 207 Claude Francis and Fernande Gontier, 327-343. Paris: Gallimard, 1979. "Jean-Paul Sartre, Strictly Personal." Translated by Malcolm Cowley . Harper 's Bazaar (January) : 113, 158, 160. "Litterature et metaphysique." Les temps modernes 7: 1153-63. Translated as "Literature and Metaphysics."Art and Action (New York) (1948): 86-93. Collected in L 'existentialisme et la sagesse des nations, 89­ 107. Paris: Nagel, 1948. "CEil pour CEil." Les temps modernes 1 (5 February): 813-830. Translated in abridged form as "Eye for Eye." Politics 4, no. 4 (July-August, 1947): 134-140. Collected in L 'existentialisme et la sagesse des nations. Paris: Nagel, 1948. "Pour une morale de l'ambiguite." Les temps modernes 2, no. 14 & 15 (November & December) : 193-211; 385-408. Collected in Pourune morale de l'ambiguite. Paris: Gallimard, 1947. Tous les hommes sont mortels. Paris: Gallimard. Translated as All Men are Mortal, by Leonard M. Friedman . Cleveland: World Publishing, 1955. 1947 "An American Renaissance in France." The New York Times (22 June). "L'Amerique aujourlejour."Les temps modernes 3, no.27 (December): 97­ 1003. Collected in L 'Amerique au jour le jour. Paris: Morihien, 1948. "AnExistentialistLooks at America." The New York Times Magazine (May): 13,51,53,54. "De Gaulle et Ie 'Gaullisme' vus par J.-P. Sartre et I'equipe des temps modernes" (text ofradio broadcast in which Beauvoirparticipated). L 'ordre de Paris, no. 44 (22 October) : 1,3. "Pour une morale de I' arnbiguite." Les temps modernes 2, no. 16 & 17 (January & February): 638-664; 846-874. Collected in Pour une morale de l'ambiguite. Paris: Gallimard, 1947. Pour une morale de I'ambiguite. Paris: Gallimard. Translated as The Ethics of Ambiguity, by Bernard Frechtman. New York: Philosophical Library , 1948. "Qu'est-ce que l'existentialisme?" France-Amerique (25 June). "The Talk ofthe Town," article-interview. The New Yorker (22 February) . 208 TED TOADVINE 1948 "L 'Amerique au jour le jour." Les temps modernes 3, nos. 28-31 (January­ April) . Collected in L 'Amerique au jour Iejour. Paris : Morihien, 1948. L 'Amerique aujour Iejour. Paris: Morihien. Translated as America Day by Day , by Patrick Dudley. London: Gerald Duckworth & Co., 1952; abridged American edition, New York: Grove Press, 1953. New translation by Carol Cosman. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999. L'existentialisme et la sagesse des nations. Paris: Nagel. "Les Femme et les Mythes." Les temps modernes 3, nos. 32 & 33; 4, no. 34 (May-July). Translation of Nelson Algren, "Trop de sel sur les bretzels." Les temps modernes 36 (September): 439-454. 1949 Le deuxieme sexe. 2 vols. Paris: Gallimard. Translated as The Second Sex, by H. M. Parshley. New York: Knopf, 1952; Vintage, 1989. "Le deuxiemesexe: Une femme appelle les femmes Iila liberte." Paris Match no. 20 (6 August): 25-28. "La Femme libre doit s'evader de trois prisons: La nature , les moeurs, et I'Idee que le rnale se faitd'e11e." Paris Match no.21 (13 August): 22­ 23,38. "L'initiation sexuelle de la femme." Les temps modernes 4, no. 43 (May): 769-802. Reprinted with minor changes in Le deuxieme sexe. "La lesbienne," "La maternite." Les temps modernes 4, no. 44 (June): 994­ 1014, 1014-1024. Reprinted with minor changes in Le deuxieme sexe. "La maternite." Les temps modernes 5,no.45 (July): 97-133.Reprinted with minor changes in Le deuxieme sexe. Le mythe de la femme et les ecrivains: Stendhal ou le romanesque du vrai." Les temps modernes 4, no. 40 (February): 138-216. Reprinted with minor changes in Le deuxieme sexe. "Simone de Beauvoir," interviewedby Gilbert Sigaux. La gazette des lettres 5, no. 97 (17 September): 1-2. "Les structures elementaires de la parente par Claude Levi-Strauss." Les temps modernes 7, no. 49 (October): 943-9. BffiLIOGRAPHY 209 1951 "Faut-il bruler Sade?" Les temps modernes 7, no. 74 (December): 1002­ 1033. Collected in Privileges, 9-29. Paris: Gallimard, 1955. Preface to Sade 1740-1814, Les ecrivains celebres, 226-228. Vol. 2. Paris: Lucien Mazenod. 1952 "Faut-it brtiler Sade?" Les temps modernes no. 75 (January): 1197-1230. Collected in Privileges, 9-29. Paris: Gallimard, 1955. Translated as "Must We Bum Sade?," by A. Michelson, in The Marquis de Sade. New York: Grove Press, 1966. 1954 "Entretien avec Simone de Beauvoir," interviewed by J.-F. Rolland. L 'humanite dimanche (19 December): 2. Reprinted in Les ecrits de Simone de Beauvoir, edited by Claude Francis and Femande Gontier, 358-362. Paris: Gallimard, 1979. Les mandarins. Paris: Gallimard. Translated as The Mandarins, by Leonard M. Friedman. Cleveland: World Publishing, 1956. "La pensee de droite aujourd'hui." Les temps modernes, nos. 112-113 & 114-115(April-May & June-July): 1539-1575,2219-2276.Collected in Privileges. Paris: Gallimard, 1955. 1955 "Merleau-Ponty et Ie pseudo-Sartrisme." Les temps modernes 10, nos. 114­ 115 (June-July): 2072-2122. Translated as "Merleau-Ponty and Pseudo-Sartreanism," by Veronique Zaytzeff and Frederick Morrison. International Studies in Philosophy 21 (1989): 3-48. Collected in Privileges, 203-272. Paris: Gallimard , 1955. Privileges. Paris :Gallimard. Reprinted in the Collection Idees under the title Faut-il briiler Sade? Paris: Gallimard, 1972. "Une soiree a Pekin avec Jean-Paul Sartre et Simone de Beauvoir," interviewed by Paul Tillard. L 'humanite dimanche (23 October). 1956 "Temoin acharge." Les temps modernes 12,no. 127-8 (September-October): 297-319. Collected inLalongue marche, 465-484.Paris:Gallimard, 1957. "Tete-a-tete avec six jeunes romancieres," interviewed by Andre Maurois . EUe (3 December). 210 TED TOADVINE 1957 La longue marche. Paris: Gallimard. Translated as The Long March , by Austryn Wainhouse. Cleveland: World Publishing, 1958. "Voici la Chine telle que je l'ai vue," interviewed by Pierre Descargues. Tribune de Lausanne (17 March). 1958 "Memoires d'unejeune fille rangee." Les temps modernes 13, nos. 147-8 & 14, no. 149 (May-June & July). Collected in Memoires d 'unejeune fille rangee. Paris : Gallimard, 1958. Memoires d 'unejeunefille rangee .Paris: Gallimard. Translated as Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter, by James Kirkup. Cleveland: World Publishing, 1959. 1959 "Brigitte Bardot and the Lolita Syndrome." Translated by Bernard Frechtman. Esquire (August) : 2-38. Reprinted as Brigitte Bardot and the Lolita Syndrome. New York: Reynal Press, 1960. French text published inLes ecrits de Simone de Beauvoir, edited by Claude Francis and Fernande Gontier, 363-376. Paris: Gallimard, 1979. Introduction to Le planningfamilial, by Marie-Andree Lagrou Weill-Halle, 3-5. Paris : Maloine. 1960 "13 Preguntas a Simone de Beauvoir," interviewedby Edith Depestre. Lunes de revolucion (21 March): 36-7.
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