"The useless mouths", and other literary writings / Simone de Beauvoir ; edited by Margaret A. Simons and Marybeth Timmermann ; foreword by Sylvie Le Bon de Beauvoir.

Includes bibliographies and index.

Introduction / Margaret A. Simons -- The useless mouths (a play) / introduction by Liz Stanley and Catherine Naji -- Short articles on literature / introduction by Elizabeth Fallaize -- Existentialist theater / introduction by Dennis A. Gilbert -- A story I used to tell myself / introduction by Ursula Tidd -- Preface to La Bâtarde by Violette Leduc / introduction by Alison S. Fell -- What can literature do? / introduction by Laura Hengehold -- Misunderstanding in Moscow -- introduction by Terry Keefe -- My experience as a writer / introduction by Elizabeth Fallaize -- Short prefaces to literary works / introduction by Eleanore Holveck -- Notes for a novel / introduction by Meryl Altman.

This title brings to English-language readers literary writings - several previously unknown - by Simone de Beauvoir. Highlights of the volume include a new translation of the 1945 play 'The Useless Mouths, ' the unpublished 1965 short novel 'Misunderstanding in Moscow', and more.

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Translated from the French.