Simone de Beauvoir -- The Mandarins (new to the mix announcement)

I was watching this video where it hit me that I need to include that in my reading list, this content creator convinced me here that Nausea wasn't a good novel at all, that is the theme of the video he goes through 5 that do it well, and 5 that don't, in this it also convinced me to not waste my time with Thomas More's Utopia. But this one by the author of The Second Sex, a highly integral work in it's field, which if I am to be transparent and stuff, i've never gotten too far into that text, for classic Feminism, which I'm blessed with having a fair collection of the most essential texts, the later works of the 70s are more to my taste, the work of Mary Daly, and Andrea Dworkin would be my first go to's when I inevitably welcome them back into the mix.

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20:44 is where he starts talking about this book

In her most famous novel, Simone de Beauvoir does not flinch in her look at Parisian intellectual society at the end of the Second World War. Drawing on those who surrounded her—Jean-Paul Sartre, Albert Camus, Arthur Koestler—and her passionate love affair with Nelson Algren, Beauvoir dissects the emotional and philosophical currents of her time. At once an engrossing drama and an intriguing political tale, The Mandarins is the emotional odyssey of a woman torn between her inner desire and her public life.

Other key Feminist works would include:

Adrienne Rich's Of Woman Born
Audre Lorde's work in general who was in a feud with Mary Daly, I recall not seeing where Mary went really wrong, but I perhaps was not privy to the whole facts.

Albert Camus is a must have in the mix, this is the video above's fave of the bunch, he recommends everything he wrote, and indeed I want to read and savor every single thing that's been translated into English, from the most famous like The Stranger, The Plague, The Fall, to the 2 Essay collections The Myth of Sisyphus and The Rebel, to things like Journalism, maybe there's Letters, I love Letters as a format of reading.