Writers Workshop - Pointers with Simone de Beauvoir WEA Sydney

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Simone de Beauvoir was one of the ‘Big thinkers’ and major French authors for 40 years of the mid-20th century. Writing was her lifelong passion and vocation to her death in 1986. She wrote her first novel at 18 and put aside a second at age 30 as not good enough. Hidden, deeply buried in her massive memoirs are pointers about the tradecraft and practice of writing. Simone knew and exercised the earthy, concrete and transcendent effect of words and writing – she has much to show us. This workshop combines readings, discussion, exercises, and a new perspective about Simone’s works as we develop our own mini-set of workpieces. Please bring a notebook, paper and pens to write with. 

DELIVERY MODE

  • Face-to-Face

SUGGESTED READING

Memoirs of Simone de Beauvoir:

  • The Mandarins (1954)
  • Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter (1959)
  • The Prime of Life (1962)
  • A Very Easy Death (1963)
  • Force of Circumstance (1965)
  • All Said and Done (1974)
  • What is Existentialism? (2020)

COURSE OUTLINE

  • Discuss, examine and use unknown pointers on the practice of writing embedded in de Beauvoir’s memoirs
  • An interactive mix of highly original delivered material & information through discussion, writing exercises and supportive feedback
  • What in Simone’s view and experience makes a writer?

LEARNING OUTCOMES

By the end of this course, student should be able to:

  1. Be well acquainted with long hidden pointers about the tradecraft of writing from one of the writing greats of the 20th century whose writings and messages remain relevant
  2. Use writing as an existential method – and develop a mini-set of work-pieces
  3. Consider the why and how of their writing projects and how to improve one’s current writings