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She
Came To Stay in All About Eve
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In Episode 05, during her presentation in the second round of the Broadcasting Festival emcee competition, Young-Mi mentions she is reading a book: “It’s autumn now. You’re all
probably reading a book. I’m reading Invited Woman by Simone de
Beauvoir.”
Episode 05 – Young-Mi in the campus radio studio Young-Mi’s classmates just see this as another example of an elitist attitude, but this bit of information by the writer provides a premonition on the direction the plot is headed, and informs the TV audience that Young-Mi is aware of her title role in it. |
Invited Woman is the Korean translation of L’Invit’ee (in English: She Came To Stay), a novel written in 1943 by French author and philosopher, Simone de Beauvoir: Set in Paris on the eve of World War II and sizzling with love, anger, and revenge, She Came to Stay explores the changes wrought in the soul of a woman and a city soon to fall. Although Franise considers her relationship with Pierre an open one, she falls prey to jealousy when the gamine Xavie catches his attention. The moody young woman from the countryside pries her way between Franise and Pierre, playing up to each one and deviously pulling them apart, until the only way out of the triangle is destruction. [http://www.tameri.com/csw/exist/beauvoir.shtml] Beauvoir is also the author of the landmark feminist work The Second Sex, as well as numerous other fiction and nonfiction books. She is seen as the mother of post-1968 feminism, especially in academia, and as a major French thinker and existentialist philosopher. [text edited from Wikipedia] |
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[www.wwnorton.com]] English translation 1999 paperback ed. |
[www.haseo.co.kr] Korean translation, Invited Woman 1992 ed. |
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