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Mourning diary: October 26, 1977 - September 15, 1979

By Richard , Barthes , Roland;Léger , Nathalie;Howard

Book information

Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux;Hill and Wang
Year
2010
ISBN
9780809062331, 9781429977074, 080906233X
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
107 kB (109622 bytes)
Pages
261 Seiten : Illustrationen\0
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52

Description

A major discovery: The lost diary of a great mind—and an intimate, deeply moving study of grief The 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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