Simone de Beauvoir, une jeune fille qui dérange #[nn]

A delicate pencil-sketched figure of a young woman strides boldly away from the viewer, her dress and hair caught mid-motion, on the cover of this French graphic biography by Sophie Carquain and Olivier Grojnowski. Published in 2016 by Marabout's Marabulles imprint, Simone de Beauvoir — une jeune fille qui dérange ("a young woman who disturbs") promises an intimate portrait of the philosopher's formative years. The restless energy of that walking figure sets exactly the right tone for a story about a mind that refused to stand still.