Simone de Beauvoir, Les Bouches inutiles [Who Shall Die?] Yoann Malinge Université catholique de Louvain - Institut Supérieur de philosophie Introduction: Les Bouches inutiles [literally: The Useless Mouths, but the title was translated as Who Shall Die?] is a play written by Simone de Beauvoir in 1943. It is composed of two acts and eight tableaux and was performed for the first time in November 1945, in a staging by Michel Vitold at the Théâtre des Carrefours, before being published by Gallimard in December of the same year. The director was also an actor; he had performed in several plays written by Jean-Paul Sartre, notably, Huis clos. The theater in which the play was created still exists, under the name of “théâtre des Bouffes-du-Nord”. Plan of the article: 1. Introduction 2. Commitment and responsibility 3. Criticism of representative democracy 4. The representation of the people 5. Moral issues 6. Feminism 7. Conclusion Works cited: Simone de Beauvoir, L’Invitée [She Came to Stay]. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1999 [1943]. --- Le sang des autres [The Blood of Others]. New York: Pantheon books, 1984 [1945]. --- Pyrrhus and Cinéas in Philosophical Writings. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2021 [1944]. --- “Idéalisme moral et réalisme politique”, L’existentialisme et la sagesse des nations. Paris: Gallimard, 2008, p. 39-69. --- “Moral Idealism and Political Realism”, in Philosophical Writings. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2021, p. 39-69. --- The Second Sex. New York: Vintage Books, 2011 [1960]. Jean-Paul Sartre, Critique of Dialectical Reason. London: Verso, 2004 [1960]. URL : https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=14977