Reviews

Yıkılmış Kadın by Simone de Beauvoir

erinastin's review against another edition

4.0

The feminine experience is truly universal isn’t it?

zoezo_xx's review against another edition

medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

kaydunkz's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

angelaglezz's review against another edition

sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.5

mikatack's review against another edition

challenging dark reflective sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts and Drug use

greenmatcha1407's review against another edition

hopeful reflective tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

lavrendy's review against another edition

4.0

A new crisis/revelation on every page!

“‘Pigs will fly the day you admit you were mistaken.’

I know. When I was young I was perpetually in the wrong and it was so difficult for me to ever be in the right that now I am very reluctant to ever blame myself.”

Are we all like this or are Simone and I just kindred spirits? I feel like I shouldn’t have related as much as I did to these stories of middle aged French women in the 60s?

anakuyenhn's review against another edition

4.0

Este libro cuenta tres historias: “La edad de la discreción”, “Monólogo” y “La mujer rota”. En cada una de estas páginas se desgarra un alma, el alma de una mujer que no ha sabido liberarse del otro, a quien fue confinada por medio del matrimonio, y quien con el tiempo las ha traicionado.


La lectura de este libro no es fácil, y no lo digo por complejidad literaria, aunque el relato “Monólogo” es bastante complejo de leer debido a que no contiene más que líneas sin pausas, imagino que simulando la desesperación de esta mujer; sino más bien por la fuerza de los sentimientos que aquí describe cada una de estas mujeres, desde complicaciones sin sentido hasta dolores causados por el otro, a quien las mujeres siempre tratamos de justificar.

Definitivamente esta no es una lectura para relajarse, es una lectura para auto revisarse, auto comprenderse y aprender a ver la vida y las relaciones de manera diferente.

Reseña Completa: La mujer Rota

gadicohen93's review against another edition

3.0

I rather liked the first story (The Age of Discretion) more than the last (TWD) and quite loathed the middle story. Simone de Beauvoir write devastating portraits -- the women are strong, proud, and ceaselessly good, and yet are failed and broken by the male figures in their lives. Most of all I appreciated how real the women's thought processes were -- de Beauvoir harvested her own emotional winds and ran them into these characters, and they were more real for it, and their troubles more painful for me to take in.

lexilev's review against another edition

emotional reflective tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated

4.0