But the most fascinating subjects tend to be those richest in contradictions, and The Second Sex, no less than Beauvoir’s prolific and important fiction, memoirs, and correspondence, seethes with them.
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Author Simone de Beauvoir
Source The Second Sex
Topic contradiction fiction
Date 1949
Language English
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Note Translated by Constance Borde and 
Sheila Malovany Chevallier
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