A Very Easy Death
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Yellowed
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
In one of the most intimate and unflinching memoirs of the twentieth century, Simone de Beauvoir chronicles the final weeks of her mother's life following an unexpected cancer diagnosis — a death that was, as the medical staff assured her, a very easy death, yet proved anything but. Set in the stark corridors of a Parisian hospital in the early 1960s, this searing account confronts the brutal realities of aging, mortality, and the quiet violence of medical institutions, while simultaneously dismantling the comfortable distance de Beauvoir had long maintained from her bourgeois mother, Françoise. Written with the precision of a philosopher and the raw grief of a daughter, this work stands as one of de Beauvoir's most personal and revealing pieces of writing — a companion to her broader feminist and existentialist project, here turned inward with devastating effect. Her prose is spare yet emotionally charged, refusing sentimentality while insisting on the full, complicated weight of maternal love and lifelong ambivalence. For anyone who has ever sat at a bedside and grappled with what it means to truly know another person, this account will leave an indelible mark.
Author: Simone De Beauvoir
Format: Paperback
Genre: Biography
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Yellowed
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
In one of the most intimate and unflinching memoirs of the twentieth century, Simone de Beauvoir chronicles the final weeks of her mother's life following an unexpected cancer diagnosis — a death that was, as the medical staff assured her, a very easy death, yet proved anything but. Set in the stark corridors of a Parisian hospital in the early 1960s, this searing account confronts the brutal realities of aging, mortality, and the quiet violence of medical institutions, while simultaneously dismantling the comfortable distance de Beauvoir had long maintained from her bourgeois mother, Françoise. Written with the precision of a philosopher and the raw grief of a daughter, this work stands as one of de Beauvoir's most personal and revealing pieces of writing — a companion to her broader feminist and existentialist project, here turned inward with devastating effect. Her prose is spare yet emotionally charged, refusing sentimentality while insisting on the full, complicated weight of maternal love and lifelong ambivalence. For anyone who has ever sat at a bedside and grappled with what it means to truly know another person, this account will leave an indelible mark.