SEEMA BOSE
Abstract
My paper focuses on a particular aspect of Simone de Beauvoir’s work, namely her treatment of the ageing process. She draws on her own experience of nursing her mother, and the way this brought home to her own mortality. She is aware that although everyone experiences ageing, apart from those who have an early death, each person experiences it in a different way. For some it is a long drawn-out process with or without painful illness. The various modalities of ageing appeared in her various writings and perhaps have not received much attention before.