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

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

Leger, Nathalie
Howard, Richard
Barthes, Roland

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ISBN10: 080906233X
ISBN13: 9780809062331
Publisher: Hill & Wang
Published: Oct 12 2010
Pages: 261
Weight: 0.75
Height: 1.00 Width: 5.25 Depth: 7.85
Language: English

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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