by Simone de Beauvoir · Rowohlt Taschenbuch · tapa blanda · ISBN 9783499110160
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«Ein sanfter Tod» is Simone de Beauvoir's memoir about her mother's illness and death, published by Rowohlt Taschenbuch in paperback (112 pages, in German).
The author reconstructs the final days of her mother, hospitalised with a sarcoma, and the relationship between them during that ordeal. The text combines the chronicle of the agony with an uncompromising reflection on old age, suffering and grief, and on the complexity of family bonds, with an honesty that has made this work a reference in the memoir genre.
Work originally published in 1964 as «Une mort très douce»; this German edition is translated from the French by Paul Mayer and belongs to the rororo Taschenbücher collection (no. 11016).
Simone Lucie Ernestine Marie Bertrand de Beauvoir was a French existentialist philosopher, writer, social theorist, and feminist activist. Though she did not consider herself a philosopher, nor was she considered one at the time of her death, she had a significant influence on both feminist existentialism and feminist theory.
