Simone de Beauvoir, Vol. 3 Book

This is a catharsis memoir for the author who, along with his mother, suffered beatings from his sadistic father.

The confessional gets sickening when he reveals every personal weird thing he's done or thought. The average person would be too ashamed; it has a self-destructive exhibitionism about it.

This memoir is front loaded. Interesting and shocking chapters up until the father's recollections of D-Day. But he runs out of things to say. The second half of the book is mostly life on the farm filler.