Un dilema para desarmar: Les belles images de Simone de Beauvoir como ficción crítica de los roles de género

Abstract

The aim of this paper, based on the textual and contextual analysis of one of Simone de Beauvoir’s latest works, a nouvelle called Les Belles Images, is to point out some of the permanent issues and dilemmas involved in her intellectual production, both in creative and theoretical directions, in order to consider them as a proof of her intellectual behaviour as fed on the impulse of new thoughts and critical perspectives. These contributed both to revise and enrich, destroy and find new ways of asking questions and objections about the female condition, as regards the injustice between both sexes. Literary pieces hold a privilege place to experiment new points of view about old problems, to expand them towards others judges, and, finally, to invite readers to participate in this fight against the cultural statu quo.