"I wasn't that interested in her, except for Une mort très douce [A death most sweet], about her mother's death. But the self-complacency of her memoirs bothers me, the way she lets everything go without any rigor. I helped translate them, and then Alejandra Pizarnik and I would write parodies of her because she so exasperated me."
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Sylvia Molloy, interview in Women writers of Latin America: intimate histories by Magdalena García Pinto (1991)
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Simone de Beauvoir
1908 – 1986
französische Schriftstellerin und Feministin
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