A Very Easy Death

Name: A Very Easy Death
Brand: Fitzcarraldo Editions
SKU: 9781804270448
Price: 27.99 NZD
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By Simone de Beauvoir

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( 11,596 ratings, 1,534 reviews)

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A Very Easy Death by Simone de Beauvoir is a poignant memoir that reflects on the final days of the author's mother. Through a deeply personal narrative, de Beauvoir examines themes of family, mortality, and the passage of time, offering a profound exploration of grief and the bond between mother and daughter.
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You might like this book if you appreciate deeply reflective and personal narratives, especially those that explore themes of mortality, illness, and existentialism. Written with profound emotional insight, it offers a poignant and intimate look at the author's experience with her mother's final days.

A Very Easy Death

Long considered one of Simone de Beauvoir's masterpieces, a profoundly moving recounting of her mother's death.

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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 (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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A Very Easy Death by Simone de Beauvoir is profoundly moving and insightful, capturing the emotional and philosophical journey of facing the death of a loved one. Critics laud its honest portrayal of care, pain, and the grim realities of mortality, cementing Beauvoir's place as a pivotal figure in feminist literature and existential philosophy.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781804270448

Publisher: Fitzcarraldo Editions

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 28 June 2023

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Fitzcarraldo Editions

Contributors:

Introduction by Ali Smith
Translated by Patrick O'Brian

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 121.0mm

Height: 197.0mm

Weight: 0g

Pages: 114

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About the Author

Simone de Beauvoir was born in Paris in 1908. In 1929 she became the youngest person ever to obtain the agregation in philosophy at the Sorbonne, placing second to Jean-Paul Sartre. She taught at the lycees at 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 Mordernes. 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.