From the publisher: “I have always had a need to talk about myself... The first question that always arose in me was this: what does it mean to be a woman? I thought I would answer it right away. But it was worth taking a careful look at this problem, and I understood first of all that this world was made for men...” - this is how Simone de Beauvoir, a classic of feminist literature, whose female and creative life lived next to the great Jean-Paul Sartre, wrote about herself, but not in the shadow of Sartre. "Pretty Pictures" (1966) is the writer's confession. 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 home, well-mannered children, a husband - a fashionable architect, a lover - everything is like in advertising. But what lies behind these happy clichés? Is there a place for living feelings here?