Tag: Une mort très douce
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Beauvoir and the Moral Burden of Care: Lydia Sandgren on Children Caring for Parents
Beauvoir and the ethical moment Lydia Sandgren’s reading of Simone de Beauvoir’s Avled stilla (Une mort très douce) reframes a private family tragedy as a universal ethical dilemma. The Swedish edition’s blunt, spare prose points toward a question Beauvoir wrestled with: when does a child’s moral obligation to a parent begin, and what does it…
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Beauvoir’s Avled Stilla: Sandgren on children’s moral duty
Beauvoir’s quiet anatomy of dying Simone de Beauvoir’s Une mort très douce (Avled stilla in Swedish) is not a melodrama about the moment of death, but a precise, unflinching examination of what happens to family bonds when aging and illness intrude on everyday life. Lydia Sandgren’s recent reflections bring this 1960s meditation into a contemporary…