“She was gradually becoming a character, that erased woman, whose name was so ratherly mentioned”

Françoise de Beauvoir’s representations in memoirs of a dutiful daughter and a very easy death, by Simone de Beauvoir

Authors

  • Camila Geovanna Alves da Silva UFPE – Universidade Federal de Pernambuco. Centro de Artes e Comunicações – Departamento de Letras. Recife – PE – Brasil
  • Tiago Hermano Breunig UFPE – Universidade Federal de Pernambuco. Centro de Artes e Comunicações – Departamento de Letras. Recife – PE – Brasil

Keywords:

Simone de Beauvoir, Mourning writings, Autobiographical writings, Testimony

Abstract

This study aims to analyze, from a comparative approach, the representation of Françoise de Beauvoir, mother of Simone de Beauvoir, in the books Memoirs of a dutiful daughter and A very easy death. For that purpose, we present a brief overview of the dialogism between the Beauvoirian testimonial project and the autobiographical enterprise in order to clarify the position of the analyzed books in Simone de Beauvoir’s artistic and philosophical projects. We also aim to understand the behavioral manifestations of the double present in both texts, considering Beauvoir’s (2009) assertions about motherhood and the alter ego, Freud’s (2019) considerations about mirrorings and the “unheimliche” complex, and Didi-Huberman’s (2010) propositions regarding the relationship between image, form, and loss.

Author Biographies

Camila Geovanna Alves da Silva, UFPE – Universidade Federal de Pernambuco. Centro de Artes e Comunicações – Departamento de Letras. Recife – PE – Brasil

Graduanda em Letras pela Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (UFPE).

Tiago Hermano Breunig, UFPE – Universidade Federal de Pernambuco. Centro de Artes e Comunicações – Departamento de Letras. Recife – PE – Brasil

Professor Adjunto do Departamento de Letras da Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (UFPE). Doutor em Literatura pela Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC).

Published

21/03/2023

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