6 Best french literature books like Hard Times: Force of Circumstance, Volume II: 1952-1962 (The Autobiography of Simone de Beauvoir) by Simone de Beauvoir

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Hard Times: Force of Circumstance, Volume II: 1952-1962 (The Autobiography of Simone de Beauvoir)

By: Simone de Beauvoir

4.17

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

This volume of Simone de Beauvoir's legendary autobiography presents Beauvoir at the height of her …

If you liked the french literature plot in Hard Times: Force of Circumstance, Volume II: 1952-1962 (The Autobiography of Simone de Beauvoir) by Simone de Beauvoir , here is a list of 6 books like this:

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1. Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism

By: bell hooks

3.91

Format: 340 pages, Paperback

A groundbreaking work of feminist history and theory analyzing the complex relations between variou… read more

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  • feminism
  • nonfiction
Cover of Rien ne s'oppose à la nuit by Delphine de Vigan

2. Rien ne s'oppose à la nuit

By: Delphine de Vigan

4.40

Format: 172 pages, Paperback

La douleur de Lucile, ma mere, a fait partie de notre enfance et plus tard de notre vie d'adulte, l… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • french literature
  • france
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3. Laughable Loves

By: Milan Kundera , حسین کاظمی‌یزدی , Suzanne Rappaport

3.91

Format: 736 pages, Paperback

Laughable Lovesis a collection of stories that first appeared in print in Prague before 1968, but w… read more

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4. Le Grand Meaulnes

By: Alain-Fournier , None

4.00

Format: 199 pages, Paperback

In a small village in the Sologne, Fifteen-year-old Francois Seurel narrates the story of his relat… read more

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  • france
  • french literature
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5. They Shoot Horses, Don't They?

By: Horace McCoy

3.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

The marathon dance craze flourished during the 1930s, but the underside was a competition and viole… read more

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6. L'art de perdre

By: Alice Zeniter

4.13

Format: 260 pages,

L'Algerie dont est originaire sa famille n'a longtemps ete pour Naima qu'une toile de fond sans gra… read more

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  • france
  • french literature

7. No and Me

By: Delphine de Vigan

2.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The international award-winning story of two girls from different backgrounds, united in friendship… read more

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8. Moon Palace

By: Paul Auster

3.90

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

Marco Stanley Fogg is an orphan, a child of the sixties, a quester tirelessly seeking the key to hi… read more

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9. Leviathan

By: Paul Auster

4.32

Format: 210 pages, Paperback

New York Times bestselling author Paul Auster (The New York Trilogy) opens Leviathanwith the tearin… read more

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10. Gather Together in My Name

By: Maya Angelou

3.15

Format: 252 pages, Paperback

This is a continuation of Maya Angelou's personal story, begun so unforgettably in her bestselling … read more

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11. Bir Kadının Yaşamından Yirmi Dört Saat

By: Stefan Zweig , Mahmure Kahraman

3.90

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

Zweig bu novellasında bir kadının yaşamını bütünüyle değiştiren yirmi dört saatlik deneyimini anlat… read more

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"La vérité à demi ne vaut rien, il la faut toujours entière."

-Stefan Zweig, Bir Kadının Yaşamından Yirmi Dört Saat

"Envejecer no significa otra cosa que no tener miedo al pasado"

-Stefan Zweig, Bir Kadının Yaşamından Yirmi Dört Saat

"Değerli olan her zaman için gerçeğin yarısı değil, tamamıdır."

-Stefan Zweig, Bir Kadının Yaşamından Yirmi Dört Saat

"Ceux qui tombent entraînent souvent dans leur chute ceux qui se portent à leur secours."

-Stefan Zweig, Bir Kadının Yaşamından Yirmi Dört Saat

12. Running

By: Jean Echenoz , Linda Coverdale

3.59

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Following his brilliant portrait of Maurice Ravel, Jean Echenoz turns to the life of one of the gre… read more

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13. Oracle Night

By: Paul Auster

4.19

Format: 496 pages,

The discovery of a mysterious notebook turns a man's life upside-down in this compulsively readable… read more

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14. The Book of Illusions

By: Paul Auster

2.57

Format: None pages, Paperback

Six months after losing his wife and two young sons, Vermont Professor David Zimmer spends his waki… read more

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15. A Man's Place

By: Annie Ernaux

3.88

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE A New York Times Notable Book Annie Ernaux's fat… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • french literature
  • france
"J'écris peut-être parce qu'on n'avait plus rien à se dire."

-Annie Ernaux, A Man's Place

"Sous le bonheur, la crispation de l'aisance gagnée à l'arraché."

-Annie Ernaux, A Man's Place

"Có lẽ niềm tự hào lớn nhất đối với ông, hay thậm chí là lời biện minh cho cuộc đời ông: là tôi đang thuộc về thế giới từng khinh miệt ông."

-Annie Ernaux, A Man's Place

"It was in other people that I searched for the figure of my father, in the way they would call their children, sit down and looked bored in waiting rooms and wave goodbye on station platforms."

-Annie Ernaux, A Man's Place

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16. Baumgartner

By: Paul Auster

3.78

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

A taut yet expansive novel of love, memory, and grief from Paul Auster, best-selling, award-winning… read more

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"Vivir es sentir dolor, y vivir con miedo al dolor es negarse a vivir"

-Paul Auster, Baumgartner

"To live is to feel pain, he told himself, and to live in fear of pain is to refuse to live."

-Paul Auster, Baumgartner

"at some point in the coming years, the two books should be combined and reconfigured into a large, one-volume collected poems—a monument of singing pages that will overwhelm the silence of Anna’s gra…"

-Paul Auster, Baumgartner

"the story turns out to be so astounding and so powerful that your jaw drops open and you feel that it has changed or enhanced or deepened your understanding of the world, does it matter if the story …"

-Paul Auster, Baumgartner

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17. In Defense of Witches: The Legacy of the Witch Hunts and Why Women Are Still on Trial

By: Mona Chollet

4.10

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Mona Chollet's In Defense of Witches is a celebration by an acclaimed French feminist of the witch … read more

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  • feminism
  • france
  • nonfiction
"En somme, si on voulait être cohérent, il faudrait soit lever le pied sur l'éducation des filles, soit intégrer à leur formation un sérieux entraînement à la guérilla contre le patriarcat, tout en s'…"

-Mona Chollet, In Defense of Witches: The Legacy of the Witch Hunts and Why Women Are Still on Trial

"No obstante, algunas mujeres, vivan o no con hombres, se sientan o no llamadas por una vocación, encuentran otro modo de evitar ser engullidas por el papel de la devota sirvienta: no tener hijos; dar…"

-Mona Chollet, In Defense of Witches: The Legacy of the Witch Hunts and Why Women Are Still on Trial

"Certaines, cependant, qu'elles vivent avec les hommes ou pas, qu'elles se sentent ou non requises par une vocation, trouvent un autre moyen d'échapper à l'engloutissement dans le rôle de la servante …"

-Mona Chollet, In Defense of Witches: The Legacy of the Witch Hunts and Why Women Are Still on Trial

"Il serait temps que les femmes - souvent si peu sûres d'elles, de leurs capacités, de la pertinence de ce qu'elles ont à apporter, de leur droit à une vie pour elles-mêmes - apprennent à se défendre …"

-Mona Chollet, In Defense of Witches: The Legacy of the Witch Hunts and Why Women Are Still on Trial

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18. Hard Times: Force of Circumstance, Volume II: 1952-1962 (The Autobiography of Simone de Beauvoir)

By: Simone de Beauvoir

4.17

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

This volume of Simone de Beauvoir's legendary autobiography presents Beauvoir at the height of her … read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • feminism
  • philosophy
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • france
  • french literature
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19. Victoire la Rouge

By: Georges de Peyrebrune

4.46

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Le roman qui inspira Journal d'une femme de chambre d'Octave Mirbeau. Orpheline, surnommée « la Rou… read more

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  • french literature
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20. Meeting in Positano

By: Goliarda Sapienza

3.85

Format: None pages, Unknown Binding

In this charming, deeply atmospheric novel set against the Amalfi Coast of the 1950s, two women for… read more

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  • feminism
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21. 18.3. Une année à la PJ

By: Pauline Guéna

3.76

Format: 528 pages, Kindle Edition

"Il est des crimes qui vous habitent ; des crimes qui font plus mal que les autres et vous ne savez… read more

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5 Top nonfiction books like Hard Times: Force of Circumstance, Volume II: 1952-1962 (The Autobiography of Simone de Beauvoir) by Simone de Beauvoir

Transform Your Habits

Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism

bell hooks

3.91

Transform Your Habits

Rien ne s'oppose à la nuit

Delphine de Vigan

4.40

Transform Your Habits

A Man's Place

Annie Ernaux

3.88

Transform Your Habits

In Defense of Witches: The Legacy of the Witch Hunts and Why Women Are Still on Trial

Mona Chollet

4.10

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Anton Chekhov , None , Yulva Muhurcişi

4.26

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Fyodor Dostoevsky

4.06

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The Last Day of a Condemned Man

Victor Hugo , Libby Purves , Geoff Woollen

3.98

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David Foenkinos

3.80

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