L’Invitée

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L’Invitée is Simone de Beauvoir’s first novel, an existentialist work exploring freedom, jealousy, and the complexities of a three-way relationship in pre-war Paris.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf novel
alsoKnownAs She Came to Stay
author Simone de Beauvoir
countryOfOrigin France
exploresConcept bad faith
contingency of human relations
freedom of the subject
firstPublishedIn France
genre existentialist fiction
philosophical novel
hasCharacter Françoise
Pierre
Xavière
hasSubject female subjectivity
power dynamics in relationships
romantic relationships
hasTranslation She Came to Stay
influencedBy Jean-Paul Sartre’s existentialism
literaryForm prose
literaryMovement existentialism
mainTheme ambiguity of human relations
authenticity
freedom
interpersonal relationships
jealousy
otherness
narrativePerspective third-person narrative
notableAs Simone de Beauvoir’s first novel
notableFeature explores a three-way relationship
integrates existentialist philosophy into fiction
originalLanguage French
publicationYear 1943
publisher Gallimard
settingLocation Paris
settingPeriod pre-World War II

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Simone de Beauvoir notableWork L’Invitée
She Came to Stay originalTitle L’Invitée