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A Very Easy Death

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★★★★★

English

By (author): Simone de Beauvoir

Translated by: Patrick O'Brian

Long considered one of Simone de Beauvoirs masterpieces, A Very Easy Death is a profoundly affecting, day-by-day recounting of her mothers 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 depicting her mothers refusal to go gentle while her autonomy and dignity are taken from her, Simone de Beauvoir shows the power of compassion when it is allied with acute intelligence (Sunday Telegraph). Powerful, touching and sometimes shocking, this is an end-of-life account that no reader is likely to forget.

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Product Details
  • Dimensions: 121 x 197mm
  • Publication Date: 28 Jun 2023
  • Publisher: Fitzcarraldo Editions
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781804270448

About Simone de Beauvoir

Simone de Beauvoir was born in Paris in 1908. In 1929 she became the youngest person ever to obtain the agrégation in philosophy at the Sorbonne placing second to Jean-Paul Sartre. She taught at lycées in Marseille and Rouen from 1931-1937 and in Paris from 1938-1943. After the war she emerged as one of the leaders of the existentialist movement working with Sartre on Les Temps Modernes. The author of several books including The Mandarins (1957) which was awarded the Prix Goncourt and The Second Sex a foundational book for contemporary feminism de Beauvoir was one of the most influential philosophers and novelists of her generation. She died in 1986.

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