Care Narratives by Annie Ernaux and Michael Rosen in the Light of the Covid-19 Pandemic

Abstract The Covid-19 pandemic has highlighted both the importance of care and a global crisis in care. Since its beginnings US 1980s as feminist theory within virtue ethics, ethics emerged from margins domestic sphere West to become species force for radical societal change. Influenced by Joan Tronto’s work, Alexandre Gefen integrated approach into literary studies France an interventionist reading strategy, offering therapeutic benefits reader well. In new intersectional approach, I argue that literature through model can improve lives. compare testimonies on either side patient/carer divide, Annie Ernaux’s pre-Covid-19 home narrative Michael Rosen’s patient testimony, which, read together, expand field medical humanities promote relational reconception society over individualist neoliberalism.