As She Lay Dying
by H
About This Novel
"As She Lays Dying" is Beauvoir's memoir about the relationship between her mother and her daughter. When she received the news that her mother had been injured in a fall, Beauvoir thought it was just an ordinary fracture, but the unexpected discovery of cancer quickly took her mother away within a few weeks. Amidst the endless guilt and sorrow, Beauvoir recorded the last moments between mother and daughter, interspersed with memories of his mother's life and reflections on the relationship between mother and daughter. In Beauvoir's eyes, the mother is humble yet arrogant, strong yet fragile, sacrificing herself for marriage and family, yet unable to give up her control and invasion of her daughter. She once hated and feared her mother, but now facing this dying old woman in the hospital bed, her heart was filled with compassion and deep love. In this book, she rarely reveals her soft core, but her perspective is still sharp. Through her personal experience, her reflections on social issues such as women's status and end-of-life ethics are also thought-provoking. Through this work full of pain, tenderness, regret and contradiction, Beauvoir will lead us to re-understand the meaning of aging, death, life and love.
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