The Woman Destroyed -

The collection is composed of the following stories, each detailing a woman facing an "undoing" of her life:

The primary "piece" related to is the collection of three short novellas written by the French existentialist philosopher Simone de Beauvoir . First published in 1967 as La Femme rompue , the book explores themes of aging, loneliness, and the loss of identity through the internal crises of three different women. The Three Novellas The Woman Destroyed

: A sixty-year-old scholar struggles with the feeling of becoming obsolete as her latest book is poorly received and her son abandons the academic career she planned for him. The collection is composed of the following stories,

: A bitter, stream-of-consciousness rant from a woman alone on New Year's Eve, reeling from the loss of her daughter and the abandonment of her family. : A bitter, stream-of-consciousness rant from a woman

: A title story written in diary entries, following Monique as her life crumbles after her husband confesses to an affair with a younger woman. Shopping Options