Format:
Online-Ressource (374 p.)
ISBN:
9780226037325
Content:
Best known as the writer who introduced French existentialism to English-speaking readers through her translation of Sartre's Being and Nothingness, Hazel E. Barnes has written an autobiography that is both the success story of a professional woman as well as a profoundly moving reflection on growing older. Transcending the personal details of her life, Barnes' memoir stands as an important contribution to the intellectual history of our century."An intimate record of our times and of the ongoing issues that challenge us to define ourselves over and over again."-Kirkus Reviews"An engaging auto
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Description based upon print version of record
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The Story I Tell Myself; CONTENTS; Recognitions and Acknowledgments; Living with the Century Apologia for an Autobiography; ONE Being a Child; TWO Being Educated; THREE Conversions and Epiphanies; Photographs follow pages 108 and 260.; FOUR Interlude; FIVE Engagement with Existentialism; SIX Existential Feminism; SEVEN Teaching for a Living; EIGHT Living in the Rockies; NINE Making an Ending; Index;
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780226037349
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780226037325
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe The Story I Tell Myself : A Venture in Existentialist Autobiography
Language:
English
Keywords:
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