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Work #990 · Mature

Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter

Simone de Beauvoir
1958 (Gallimard) · French
Autobiography · Twentieth-century French existentialist autobiography

A young Parisian woman's break with Catholic-bourgeois upbringing and discovery of philosophical-existential vocation

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Attribute Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter (Mature)
Time · Extent Infinite
Time · Ontological Status Substantival
Time · Grain Continuous
Time · Freedom Non-Deterministic
Time · Traversability Linear
Time · Dimensionality One
Time · Direction Uni-directional
Space · Extent Infinite
Space · Ontological Status Substantival
Space · Curvature Flat
Space · Dimensionality Three
Space · Locality Local
Matter · Extent Infinite
Matter · Ontological Status Substantival
Matter · Conservation Conserved
Matter · Dimensionality Three
Matter · Locality Local
Observer · Time Instance Single
Observer · Space Instance Single
Observer · Knowledge Extent Partial
Observer · Knowledge Retainment Total
Observer · Physicality Embodied
Observer · Agency Both
Observer · Number Plural
Observer · Metaphysical Agency None
Observer · Moral Authority Experience
Observer · Theological Method
Energy · Extent Infinite
Energy · Ontological Status Substantival
Energy · Conservation Conserved
Energy · Dispersibility Irreversible
Information · Ontological Status Substantival
Information · Cosmic Conservation Conserved
Information · Personal Conservation Conserved
Information · Granularity Continuous

Dimension-by-Dimension Evidence

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Time

Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter

1908-1929 autobiographical time; historical-social time of declining bourgeois-Catholic France.

Space

Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter

Paris addresses, rural retreats, Sorbonne as formative spaces.

Matter

Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter

Embodied young Beauvoir moving through constrained spaces.

Observer

Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter

Mature narrator and young narrated; families and friends.

Energy

Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter

Intellectual-emotional energies of becoming a philosopher.

Information

Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter

Events, conversations, books, friendships.

Internal Tensions

Where each work's argument pulls against itself.

Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter

Portrait of Zaza, whose 1929 death organises the emotional climax, has been variously read as feminist indictment and complex personal reckoning.