
De Beauvoir on Bardot: philosophy meets sex symbol.
Brigitte Bardot and the Lolita Syndrome was first written for the August 1959 issue of Esquire magazine, then swiftly released in book form to capitalise on the fame of both author and subject. This UK paperback edition, printed by Four Square in 1962, sets de Beauvoir’s evocative prose against black-and-white photographs of Bardot.
Almost a prototype of the cultural criticism that now fills Substack, de Beauvoir reads Bardot not as an actress but as a sign of changing times – youth, sex, and freedom distilled into a single star image.
Edition: New English Library, Four Square, Second UK Paperback Edition
Year: 1962
Condition: Good vintage condition
Notes: Slight cockling toward the spine; all leaves intact and square. Wrinkling and light foxing to cover corners.
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“She walks, she dances, she moves about. Her eroticism is not magical, but aggressive. In the game of love, she is as much a hunter as she is a prey. The male is an object to her, just as she is to him. And that is precisely what wounds masculine pride.”
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