America Day by Day
Author: Simone de Beauvoir
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2000-03-30
Total Pages: 414
ISBN-13: 9780520210677
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA portrait of 1940s America by a French writer, eg. "The constipated girl smiles a loving smile at the lemon juice that relieves her intestines. In the subway, in the streets, on magazine pages, these smiles pursue me like obsessions. I read on a sign in a drugstore, 'Not to grin is a sin.' Everyone obeys the order, the system. 'Cheer up! Take it easy.' Optimism is necessary for the country's social peace and economic prosperity."