Monologue
by (france) Simone De Beauvoir
About This Novel
"Soliloquy" 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 literary creation. The three short stories included all have women as the protagonists. Among them, "A Sensible Age" tells the story of a middle-aged professional woman's dissatisfaction with her son's marriage and career future; "Soliloquy" is the entire story of a single mother's ramblings, but underneath the nervous words is the pain of her little daughter's suicide; "The Exhausted Woman" uses the form of a diary to show the psychological journey of a housewife coping with her husband's extramarital affair. From this, Beauvoir depicts three women in crisis: one claims to be 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 has no idea what to do. The collection of novels has important sociological significance and is Beauvoir's reflection on women's fate and living conditions.
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