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A review by moonpix
The Inseparables by Simone de Beauvoir
4.0
Really heartbreaking. Lots of what I've read lately has reminded me of My Brilliant Friend but this one especially so....
"Simone feels guilty because surviving, in a way, is a failing. Zaza was the ransom; she even goes as far in her unpublished notes as to describe Zaza as “the sacrificial victim” of her own escape. But for us, does her novel not fulfill the quasi-sacred mission that she entrusted to words: to fight against time, to fight against forgetfulness, to fight against death, “to justify the absolute importance of the moment, the eternity of the moment that would last forever”?"
"Simone feels guilty because surviving, in a way, is a failing. Zaza was the ransom; she even goes as far in her unpublished notes as to describe Zaza as “the sacrificial victim” of her own escape. But for us, does her novel not fulfill the quasi-sacred mission that she entrusted to words: to fight against time, to fight against forgetfulness, to fight against death, “to justify the absolute importance of the moment, the eternity of the moment that would last forever”?"