The Restless Narrative - Simone de Beauvoir and Anne Karpt: vigor in the reflections on aging
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https://doi.org/10.23925/2176-901X.2019v22i2p113-129Keywords:
Restless Narrative, Simone de Beauvoir, Anne Karpt, Old age, How to grow old.Abstract
This paper emphasizes the attitude, commitment and particularities of two authors, Simone de Beauvoir and Anne Karpf, when thematizing the phenomenon of aging in books of wide world circulation – Old Age and How to Grow Old, respectively. The style printed in these works goes beyond the broad and rigorous knowledge of old age, also demonstrates complicity with a cause and the possibility of social transformation.
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2019-06-30
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Cerqueira, M. B. (2019). The Restless Narrative - Simone de Beauvoir and Anne Karpt: vigor in the reflections on aging. Revista Kairós-Gerontologia, 22(2), 113–129. https://doi.org/10.23925/2176-901X.2019v22i2p113-129
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