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About This Novel

This book is a collection of short stories published by Beauvoir in 1967. Among Beauvoir's published essays, novels, autobiographies and letters, it belongs to her later creation. The three short stories collected all have women as the protagonists, which can be said to be the three types of women's experiences in modern society. Among them, "The Age of Sensible" tells the story of middle-aged professional women's dissatisfaction and anxiety about themselves, their husbands, and their son's marriage and career prospects; "Monologue" is the whole story of a single mother, and underneath the neurotic words is the pain of her little daughter's suicide; "Exhausted Woman" uses the form of a diary to show the psychological journey of a housewife coping with her husband's extramarital affair. Beauvoir depicts three women in crisis: one considers herself a good mother and tries to control everything; one is full of resentment and worry about her family and children; one is abandoned by her husband and is at a loss as to what to do.

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