COMPASSION ET RÉVOLTE DANS LE RAPPORT MÈRE - FILLE. UNE MORT TRÈS DOUCE DE SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR
COMPASSION AND REVOLT IN THE MOTHER - DAUGHTER RELATIONSHIP: SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR'S UNE MORT TRÈS DOUCE

Summary/Abstract: Compassion and Revolt in the Mother - Daughter Relationship: Simone de Beauvoir's Une mort très douce. The article focuses on the mother-daughter relationship as developed in Simone de Beauvoir's novel. The main motive of this particular family microdynamics in particular circumstances: a mother dying of cancer, a daughter confronting with her own limits and traumas. I am mostly interested in my study by how the proximity and the imminence of death offer to both of them the pretext to recall the past and to reconsider their relationship, which is marked by the mutual revolt: the daughter's against the limited milieu which had been imposed by the mother; the mother's against the promiscuous life of her daughter. This revolt is however thwarted and compensated by the compassion present in the auctorial point of view. The main idea that I would like to argue is that of a self-knowledge experience that presents the opportunity for Simone de Beauvoir to build in a critique of the society and of the perception of mother-daughter couple.

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