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Mourning Diary

By Roland Barthes

Book information

Publisher
Hill and Wang
Year
2010
ISBN
080906233X, 9780809062331
LCC
P85.B33 A3 2010
Open Library ID
OL24069334M
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
243 kB (248348 bytes)
Edition
First Edition
Pages
\0
Time added
2012-02-04 16:00:00

Description

A major discovery: The lost diary of a great mind—and an intimate, deeply moving study of griefThe day after his mother’s death in October 1977, the influential philosopher Roland Barthes began a diary of mourning. Taking notes on index cards as was his habit, he reflected on a new solitude, on the ebb and flow of sadness, and on modern society’s dismissal of grief. These 330 cards, published here for the first time, prove a skeleton key to the themes he tackled throughout his work. Behind the unflagging mind, “the most consistently intelligent, important, and useful literary critic to have emerged anywhere” (Susan Sontag), lay a deeply sensitive man who cherished his mother with a devotion unknown even to his closest friends.

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