Very sweet death

This book, according to Sartre, the best I have written to date. I transferred Françoise de Beauvoir (Simone's mother) to the hospital after her fall in the bathroom. Very quickly, intestinal cancer was revealed and it became clear that it was widespread cancer. Both Simone de Beauvoir and her sister Boubette spend three months alternating by their mother's side, witnessing her final moments. The author evokes the topics of euthanasia and therapeutic exhaustion: she knows her mother is doomed but remains powerless, weak before the doctors who exercise tyranny over their patient, which can only be justified by healing. Simone evokes death, from her well-known perspective, and from her faithful mother's perspective. She reexamines her family and the role she played in it; as a well-known and economically distinguished writer: she was "the son" in some way to financially support her mother. In this novel, she recalls her mother's reactions, closely linked to bourgeois values, towards her work and her life as a committed writer. Finally, as Beauvoir sees it, she observes the working conditions of nurses and the living conditions of the patients. Perhaps Simone de Beauvoir presented herself, in these one hundred and sixty small pages, if not the best about her life, "at least the most secret." As Pierre-Henri Simon of the French Academy says in an article in Le Monde: "That Simone de Beauvoir, whose loyalty and courage we know, reveals sensitivity and tenderness. Excessive" (Émile Bradiel, The Liberated School - Issue 1: 1964).