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Mourning Diary: October 26, 1977-September 15, 1979 (Hardback)
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Short Description for Mourning DiaryA 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 her...
Full description- Publisher: Hill & Wang
- Published: 12 October 2010
- Format: Hardback 261 pages
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- Categories: Biography: Literary | Anthologies (non-poetry)
- ISBN 13: 9780809062331 ISBN 10: 080906233X
- Sales rank: 102,232
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Full description for Mourning Diary
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.
