Zaza Mabille: Mission and Motive in Simone de Beauvoir's "Memoires"
1983; University of Wisconsin Press; Volume: 24; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês
10.2307/1208105
ISSN1548-9949
Autores Tópico(s)Autobiographical and Biographical Writing
ResumoThe role of Elizabeth (Zaza) Mabille in Simone de Beauvoir's life has been described in Memoires d'une jeune fille rangde (Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter)' and represented in fiction in Quand prime le spirituel (When the Spiritual Predominates).2 It has also been commented on by Elaine Marks, Francis Jeanson, Jean Leighton, and Carol Ascher.3 Nonetheless, Zaza's role has yet to be examined in depth as the powerful formative force it was in the early life of Simone de Beauvoir. The impact of Zaza's life and death on de Beauvoir also merits further study because it provided a wellspring of inspiration for her early attempts at writing. A significant portion of Mdmoires, the first of four volumes of de Beauvoir's autobiography, explores the friendship of Simone and Zaza. The parameters of this friendship determine the form of Mdmoires. Each of the four sections ends with a reference to Zaza, and the book itself ends with her death. Anne, the fourth of five loosely connected segments in the recently published (1979) but older book Quand prime, provides insight into de Beauvoir's feelings for
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