Autobiografía del cuerpo fenoménico doliente. Une morte très douce de S. de Beauvoir en diálogo con Merleau-Ponty

This article analyses the philosophical dimension of Une morte très douce, an autobiographical text by Simone de Beauvoir in which the philosopher recounts the agony and death of her mother. The narrative unfolds an inner questioning of Beauvoir's own thought but also establishes a philosophical dialogue with Merleau-Ponty. Firstly, the autobiographical narrative allows Beauvoir to revisit and re-signify two topics explicitly dealt with in Le deuxième sexe - such as motherhood and old age - from a completely new point of view. At the same time, the first-person description in Une morte... anticipates much of her philosophical essay La vieillesse, which she would publish six years later. Secondly, the experience of illness makes the Merleau-Pontyan notions of "lived body", "intercorporeality" and "habitualities" patent. However, by expressing it through the autobiographical genre, the philosopher complements in a more carnal way the description of the suffering phenomenal body that her contemporary had sketched in Phénoménologie de la perception only as an epistemological critique of dualism.