"I have always had a need to talk about myself... The first question I always had was: what does it mean to be a woman? I thought that I would immediately answer it. But it was worth taking a close look at this problem, and I realized first of all that this world was made for men..." "wrote Simone de Beauvoir, a classic of feminist literature whose feminine and creative life flowed alongside the great Jean-Paul Sartre, but not in Sartre's shadow. "Lovely Pictures" (1966) is a confession of the writer. The heroine of the story is a young woman. Working in an advertising agency taught her to imagine life as a series of pictures from glossy magazines: a comfortable house, well-mannered children, a husband - a fashionable architect, a lover - everything is like in advertising. But what lies behind these prosperous clichés? Is there a place for living feelings here?