ABSTRACT
Simone de Beauvoir suffers from a sort of reversal-of-fortune change with respect to her writing; for years, she was thought of primarily as a novelist and essayist, and scarcely as a philosopher, but more recently has her philosophical work come to be emphasized over her novels. Elizabeth Fallacies organized a reader with criticism of both the philosophical and literary work, and her take on the novels is a refreshing glance at them from a more standardly critical point of view. Jane Heath has written of the feminine as a force for the disrupture of the masculine economy, and there is no question that this is at least one obvious reading of She Came to Stay. Xaviere represents something irrational and beyond the closed world of Pierre and Francoise, a world that is, of course, dominated by Pierre. Two young Indians were half-staggering, half-dancing together; they looked so incapable of enjoying themselves that it touched my heart.
