America Day by Day
1948 book by Simone de Beauvoir
Author | Simone de Beauvoir |
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Publication date | 1948 |
America Day by Day is a 1948 book by Simone de Beauvoir chronicling her trip by road across the United States of America over four months in 1947.[1][2] It was published in French in 1948 with an English translation in 1953. A new translation in English by Carol Cosman with a foreword by Douglas Brinkley was published in 1999 by the University of California Press.[1]
The book grew from the essay "An Existentialist Looks at Americans", published in The New York Times Magazine in 1947.[3]
References
- ^ a b America Day by Day. University of California Press. January 1999. ISBN 978-0-520-21067-7. Archived from the original on 16 May 2023. Retrieved 4 August 2023.
- ^ Simons, Margaret A. (2001-02-07). Beauvoir and The Second Sex. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. ISBN 978-0-7425-7127-3.
- ^ Cotkin, George (2003). Existential America. JHU Press. ISBN 978-0-8018-8200-5.
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Simone de Beauvoir
- When Things of the Spirit Come First (1937)
- She Came to Stay (1943)
- The Blood of Others (1945)
- All Men Are Mortal (1946)
- The Mandarins (1954)
- Pyrrhus and Cineas (1944)
- The Ethics of Ambiguity (1946)
- America Day by Day (1948)
- The Second Sex (1949)
- The Coming of Age (1970)
- Hélène de Beauvoir (sister)
- Sylvie Le Bon-de Beauvoir (adopted daughter)
- Jean-Paul Sartre
- Place Jean-Paul-Sartre-et-Simone-de-Beauvoir