一场极为安详的死亡 A Very Easy Death

基本信息

Format:Paperback / softback 114 pages

Publisher:Fitzcarraldo Editions

Imprint:Fitzcarraldo Editions

ISBN:9781804270448

Published:28 Jun 2023

Weight:128g

Dimensions:121 x 197 x 11 (mm)

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

书籍简介

本书一直被认为是西蒙娜-德-波伏娃的代表作之一，该书逐日叙述了她的母亲在摔倒住院后的日子，感人至深。虽然母亲是虔诚的天主教徒，但她对死亡的恐惧淹没了她的信念，随着身体的衰竭，她以非常原始的绝望方式紧紧抓住生命。西蒙娜-德-波伏娃（Simone de Beauvoir）在描写母亲拒绝 "温柔地离去"，而她的自主权和尊严却被夺走时，"展示了当同情心与敏锐的智慧相结合时的力量"（《星期日电讯报》）。

这本书充满力量、感人至深，有时甚至令人震惊，是读者不会忘记的生命之作。

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.

作者简介

西蒙娜-德-波伏娃于 1908 年出生于巴黎。1929 年，她是索邦大学获得哲学学士学位的非常年轻学生，仅次于让-保罗-萨特。1931-1937 年，她在马赛和鲁昂的中学任教，1938-1943 年在巴黎任教。战后，她成为存在主义运动的动员人之一，与萨特合作创作了《现代生活》。德-波伏娃著有多部作品，包括荣获龚古尔奖的《曼达林人》（1957 年）和当代女权主义奠基之作《第二性》，她是同时代非常具影响力的哲学家和小说家之一。她于 1986 年去世。

阿里-史密斯出生于因弗内斯，现居剑桥。她曾四次入围布克奖，两次入围妇女小说奖，并于2015年凭借《如何做到两者兼得》获得该奖。该小说还获得了金史密斯奖（Goldsmiths Prize）和科斯塔小说奖（Costa Novel Award）。2022 年，她荣获奥地利国家欧洲文学奖。

帕特里克-奥布赖恩（1914-2000），生于理查德-帕特里克-拉斯，英国小说家、传记作家和法文翻译家。他的译作包括亨利-沙里耶尔的《巴比隆》、让-拉库图尔的《戴高乐传》以及西蒙娜-德-波伏娃的许多晚期作品，包括《美丽的形象》、《都说了些什么》和《死得很容易》。

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

Ali Smith was born in Inverness, and now lives in Cambridge. She has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize four times and twice for the Women’s Prize for Fiction, which she won in 2015 for How to Be Both. That novel also won the Goldsmiths Prize and the Costa Novel Award. In 2022, she was awarded the Austrian State Prize for European Literature.

Patrick O’Brian (1914-2000), born Richard Patrick Russ, was an English novelist, biographer and translator from French. His translations include Henri Charrière’s Papillon, Jean Lacouture’s biography of Charles de Gaulle and many of Simone de Beauvoir’s later works, including Les Belles Images, All Said and Done and A Very Easy Death.