A day-by-day account of the death of the author's mother.

First published in France in 1990, Simone de Beauvoir's correspondence aroused a storm of controversy and cast a dark light on what had long been considered an ideal relationship.

Apart from considering the whole span of her life and work, the book is important in the way it draws on a number of press interviews and other direct statements rather than the literary work only.

Set in Paris on the eve of World War II, the novel draws upon Simone de Beauvoir's relationship with Jean-Paul Sartre, and the affair that almost destroyed it.

Un chef de la résistance pendant l'occupation allemande de la France réfléchit à sa relation avec une femme qu'il a envoyée en mission meurtrière.