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A review by nialexieva
The Woman Destroyed by Simone de Beauvoir
3.0
ah, so interesting..
this feels like it took me literally forever to read and in many ways it did. I got through the first story really quickly, found the second one basically unreadable and the third one presented me with a tricky dillema. I think Beauvoir's writing, albeit translated, is incredible. This expression of madness, despair, the feeling of losing oneself. It's done so well and I was highlighting like a crazy person. But! I could barely read it because the subject matter is so so unrelatable. And this is coming from a person who loves escapism and reading about people whose lives I could never ever relate to. But this notion of falling into such a state of despair because you've given up your whole life to loving your husband and nothing else. And basing your entire happiness on that?? It's just something I am so fundamentally against, that I can't really read it and enjoy it one second. I loved the passages in which she contemplates how the way that she brought up her daughters reflects on how they've turned out.
Anyways, I think I am enjoying this keyboard and its swift buttons too much, I should stop
this feels like it took me literally forever to read and in many ways it did. I got through the first story really quickly, found the second one basically unreadable and the third one presented me with a tricky dillema. I think Beauvoir's writing, albeit translated, is incredible. This expression of madness, despair, the feeling of losing oneself. It's done so well and I was highlighting like a crazy person. But! I could barely read it because the subject matter is so so unrelatable. And this is coming from a person who loves escapism and reading about people whose lives I could never ever relate to. But this notion of falling into such a state of despair because you've given up your whole life to loving your husband and nothing else. And basing your entire happiness on that?? It's just something I am so fundamentally against, that I can't really read it and enjoy it one second. I loved the passages in which she contemplates how the way that she brought up her daughters reflects on how they've turned out.
Anyways, I think I am enjoying this keyboard and its swift buttons too much, I should stop