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Author(s) -
Éric LEVÉEL,
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Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
viatica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2275-0827
DOI - 10.52497/viatica2268
Subject(s) - humanities , novella , memoir , ideology , philosophy , ethnology , art , art history , literature , history , political science , politics , law
This article delves on the complex relationship Simone de Beauvoir had with the USSR between 1955 and 1968. It attempts to analyse the chronicle of her sojourns in this country as depicted in her memoirs, but also in the short novel Malentendu à Moscou (1967) as a summation of her varied experiences. What appears in these texts is, in fact, a long farewell to a country which had stirred up so many hopes, but which betrayed them year after year. The Soviet reality destroyed the ideological dreams the philosopher and writer ever had.