When things of the spirit come first
Original title: Quand prime le spirituel
earliest edition we have, 1981 A. Deutsch, 1982 212 pages
**When Things of the Spirit Come First** is Simone de Beauvoir’s first work of fiction. It consists of five short stories woven together in a way that is structurally similar to a more traditional novel. Beauvoir submitted this collection of interlinked stories to a publisher in 1937. But it was turned down by both Gallimard and Grasset. Gallimard eventually published it in 1979. The first English translation came o...
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