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Title	:	All Men Are Mortal
Author	:	Simone de Beauvoir
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 352 pages
Published	:	May 17th 1992 by W. W. Norton Company (first published December 17th 1946)
Categories	:	Fiction. Philosophy. Classics. Cultural. France. Feminism. European Literature. French Literature. Literature

All Men Are Mortal

Simone de Beauvoir

Paperback | Pages: 352 pages

Rating: 4.11 | 3836 Users | 300 Reviews

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When the beautiful, ambitious actress Regina takes Fosca into her life and learns his amazing truth, she is obsessed with the thought that in his memory her performances will live forever. But, as he recounts the story of his immortal existence over more than six centuries, as she learns of his involvement in some of the most significant events in history and how human hope and love have withered in him, she finally understands the implications for him and for love.

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Original Title:	Tous les hommes sont mortels
ISBN:	0393308456 (ISBN13: 9780393308457)
Edition Language:	English

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A limited future; a limited life . . . that is our lot as men.French philosopher Simone de Beauvoirs (1008-1986) existentialist novel 'All Men are Mortal' is an extraordinarily strange and imaginative fiction. Published in 1946, barely out of the mayhem of the second world war, Beauvoir expertly explorers the nature of mortality. In 'All Men are Mortal, she speculates on some of the tenets of existentialism including love, politics, history, emotion and death.The main character of the novel,

Tous les hommes sont mortels = All Men Are Mortal, Simone de Beauvoir All Men Are Mortal is a 1946 novel by Simone de Beauvoir. It tells the story of Raimon Fosca, a man cursed to live forever. Regina is a young theatrical actress. Her career seems to be promising and her reputation becomes wider with every tour and performance. But she is not content. The sparks of attention in the eyes of her audience seem fleeting and the praises seem typical rather than unique. She can not accept herself

I thought this book would be interesting, but it failed to gain my attention. I found myself as bored with this book as Fosca feels bored with his eternal life.

Somehow I missed reading this book over the years, despite reading and re-reading most of de Beauvoir's output. I am so sorry I didn't find it 35 years ago - it's an exquisite book. Tightly plotted with as fantastic a grip on history as The Second Sex, and one of the clearest expositions of Existentialist thought I have read, particularly of the futility of living for the future instead of the present (particularly the immortal future). In some respects it reminds me of other picaresque novels

Well-written. Two stories intertwined by the same existentialist idea developed by Simone de Beauvoir in her works. Still, too pessimistic and sad. The downside of it was that despite my previous perception that life is too short, the author argues that too much time and immortality generates a sort of weariness and man is unable to experience emotions at their utmost intensity. "They don't even want to be happy. They're only too happy to kill time while waiting for time to kill them" (280)

Insects were scurrying about in the shade cast by the grass, and the lawn was a huge monotonous forest of thousands of little green blades, all equal, all alike, hiding the world from each other. Anguished, she thought, "I don't want to be just another blade of grass. Part historical fiction part philosophy, All Men are Mortal by Simone de Beauvoir was written, I can only imagine, to make us wonder about life itself. In the first section we read about Raymond Foscas relationship with Regina, a

"'Oh, how I'd like to believe that I'll never rot in a grave!''On the contrary, immortality is a terrible curse.' He looked at her mournfully. 'I'm alive and yet I'm not living. I'll never die and yet I have no future. I'm no one. I'm without a past, faceless.''No,' she said gently, 'I see you.''You see me?' He passed his hand over his face. 'If only it were possible to be absolutely nothing. But there are always other people on earth and they see you. They speak and you can't prevent yourself