What Simone De Beauvoir knew about loss, by Ali Smith | Audio Long Read
From The Politics Show
Published 8/12/2023
From The Politics Show
Published 8/12/2023
The novelist Ali Smith first came across the work of Simone de Beauvoir in an Inverness bookshop, aged 18 or 19, and was instantly compelled by her “tough, troubling” prose. In this week’s long read, Smith reflects on De Beauvoir’s 1964 memoir A Very Easy Death, a slight, visceral book about her…
