![]() ![]() ![]() “I knew the manuscript existed because she had spoken about it, but after she died there were other works that I felt should be published first.” Simone de Beauvoir, right, and Elisabeth ‘Zaza’ Lacoin, with whom the writer had an intense coming-of-age friendship, 1928. ![]() But she kept it, which suggests a certain judgment of it, because she destroyed the works she didn’t want to keep,” Le Bon de Beauvoir says. She wanted to write an autobiography, not another novel. “She wasn’t happy with it because it wasn’t what she wanted to do at the time. The story was never published in De Beauvoir’s lifetime, not, Le Bon de Beauvoir insists, because it was “too intimate” – as was suggested when it came out in France last year – or even because Sartre was sniffy and dismissive of it, but because the writer wanted to move away from fiction to concentrate on her memoirs. ![]()
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