Brigitte Bardot and the Lolita Syndrome

Translated by Bernard Fretchman. First Four Square edition. Originally published in a different format in 1960 by Andre Deutsch/ Weidenfeld & Nicolson. Pictorial limp card wrapps. With 33 b/w full-page photographs of Brigitte Bardot. Slight rubbing and creasing to covers. *** Simone de Beauvoir’s essay examining Bardot as a symbol of changing attitudes towards female sexuality, youth and independence. De Beauvoir explores her appeal, “in connection with the ideal of modern woman which tends towards the Lolita child-woman symbol”.