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 depicting her mother's 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.
| ISBN: | 9781804270448 |
| Publication date: | 28th June 2023 |
| Author: | Simone de Beauvoir |
| Publisher: | Fitzcarraldo Editions |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 128 pages |
| Genres: |
Sociology: death and dying Memoirs Literary essays |
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 depicting her mother's 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.
A Very Easy Death features in the following genres: Sociology: death and dying, Memoirs, Literary essays
A Very Easy Death is available in Paperback
A Very Easy Death was written by Simone de Beauvoir and published by Fitzcarraldo Editions
A Very Easy Death has 128 pages
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