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A Very Easy Death has long been considered one of Simone de Beauvoir’s masterpieces. The profoundly moving, day-by-day recounting of her mother’s death “shows the power of compassion when it is allied with acute intelligence” (The Sunday Telegraph).
A Very Easy Death has long been considered one of Simone de Beauvoir’s masterpieces. The profoundly moving, day-by-day recounting of her mother’s death “shows the power of compassion when it is allied with acute intelligence” ( The Sunday Telegraph ).
A Very Easy Death by Simone de Beauvoir. 10,546 ratings, 4.04 average rating, 1,396 reviews. Open Preview. A Very Easy Death Quotes Showing 1-30 of 45. “There is no such thing as a natural death: nothing that happens to a man is ever natural, since his presence calls the world into question.
22 de sept. de 2022 · A very easy death. by. Beauvoir, Simone de, 1908-1986. Publication date. 1985. Topics. Beauvoir, Simone de, 1908-1986, Authors, French -- 20th century -- Biography. Publisher. New York : Pantheon.
Long considered one of Simone de Beauvoir’s masterpieces, A Very Easy Death is a profoundly affecting, day-by-day recounting of her mother’s final days after she is hospitalized following a fall. Though a devout Catholic, her faith is subsumed by her terror of death, and as her body fails, she clings to life with fierce, primal desperation.
In 1964 Beauvoir published a novella-length autobiography, A Very Easy Death, covering the time she spent visiting her aging mother, who was dying of cancer. The novella brings up questions of ethical concerns with truth-telling in doctor-patient relationships.
12 de feb. de 1985 · A Very Easy Death has long been considered one of Simone de Beauvoir’s masterpieces. The profoundly moving, day-by-day recounting of her mother’s death “shows the power of compassion when it is allied with acute intelligence” (The Sunday Telegraph).
