by Simone de Beauvoir · Penguin Classics · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140183337
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«The Blood of Others» is Simone de Beauvoir's existentialist novel, published by Penguin Classics in paperback (240 pages, in English).
Jean Blomart, a member of the French Resistance against the German occupation, waits beside Hélène, wounded after a mission he assigned her. Through the endless night he reviews his decisions and must decide how many more lives to risk. The novel links personal history with reflection on freedom, responsibility and commitment.
Work originally published in French in 1945 under the title «Le Sang des autres». This English edition is part of the Twentieth Century Classics collection from Penguin Classics.
It is a work for readers of twentieth-century classics and existentialist fiction, as well as for those who want to discover Simone de Beauvoir.
Simone Lucie Ernestine Marie Bertrand de Beauvoir was a French existentialist philosopher, writer, social theorist, and feminist activist. Though she did not consider herself a philosopher, nor was she considered one at the time of her death, she had a significant influence on both feminist existentialism and feminist theory.
