The Transcendence Of Women In Beauvoir's Keys To Happiness

Introduction

“Woman is the incidental, the inessential, as opposed to the essential. He is the subject, he is the absolute-she is the other’’ - SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR, SECOND SEX

Human existence is an ambiguous interplay between transcendence and immanence, yet men have privileged with expressing transcendence through projects, whereas women have been forced into the repetitive and uncreative life of immanence. Literature is an expression and it shared the feelings and emotions of a particular person with a group. Most probably, the writers write out their own experiences or else they write out some other’s experience. The experience may be tragic one or a comic one. Simone de Beauvoir in his book “Second Sex’’ remarks that: every

If she is mentioned at all in histories of Russian literature, she usually receives a critical reference as an exponent of ‘women’s prose’ (zhenskaia proza), which has been characterized by both contemporary and later critics, in Russia and the West, as a literature of trivial or sensational themes, obsessed by sentiment and romance, and couched in a weak or hysterical style. There are several good reasons for taking a fresh look at Verbitskaya’s work “Keys to Happiness’’. The first, general point is that a reassessment of Verbitskaya will contribute to the valuable feminist project of rediscovering and reinterpreting the lives and work of neglected Russian women writers, which is still in its infancy in comparison with the reclamation of English and American women’s fiction initiated during the early stages of the second-wave feminist movement in the 1960s and 1970s. Like feminist writings in English from the 1880s onwards. Verbitskaya’s novels played a progressive role in the Russian women’s movement, even if they were not ‘great art’; and her activities as writer and publisher rendered her an important role model for Russian women and an influential popularizer of contemporary feminist ideas. In the second place, it is necessary to put the record straight, because Verbitskaya has been partially misrepresented by other critics, who have, with only a few recent exceptions,

About the creative hands behind

b. Overview of Anastasya Verbitskaya’s major works

c. Acceptance of Keys to Happiness

d. Keys to Happiness-an outline This chapter provides life sketch, literary career, writing style, uniqueness of Verbitskaya and an overview of her other major works. It also includes acceptance of the novel Keys to Happiness and outline of the novel.

Chapter 2: Opening ‘Keys to Happiness’ Through the Life of Manya -

A New Woman Manya’s journey of life is presented through a feminine perspective in this chapter through a detailed study of the novel Keys to Happiness

Chapter 3: Re-Reading of ‘Keys to Happiness’

This chapter is divided into two sub chapters:

a) Analysis of Keys to Happiness with Robert Sternberg’s Triangular theory of love

b) Reconstructing Female Identity in Keys to Happiness in the first part, the love relationships in this novel is analysed and re- depicted with Robert Sternberg’s triangular theory of love. The second part is attempt to create a new identity for Manya

Conclusion

It consists of important observations made in afore chapters and the personal remarks regarding this research