"The Power of Life" is the second volume of Simone de Beauvoir's autobiography and covers the early years of her unconventional relationship with Jean-Paul Sartre, the greatest philosopher of the twentieth century. It is the story of an inexhaustible search for personal freedom and identity during the revolutionary decade of the 1930s and the fragmented years of the 1940s. Beauvoir and Sartre, two key figures in the intellectual and political life of modern Europe, along with dozens of other protagonists of intellectual and social struggles, will fill the pages of this volume. Simone de Beauvoir's diaries are divided into four independent volumes. In chronological order, they are: Memories of a Well-Behaved Daughter, The Power of Life, The Power of Things, and What We Said and What We Did."