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| Genre/Form: | Biography Personal Narratives |
|---|---|
| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Bauby, Jean-Dominique, 1952-1997. Diving bell and the butterfly. New York : A.A. Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 1997 (OCoLC)755234321 |
| Named Person: | Jean-Dominique Bauby |
| Material Type: | Biography, Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Jean-Dominique Bauby |
| ISBN: | 0375401156 9780375401152 |
| OCLC Number: | 36896594 |
| Notes: | Translation of Le scaphandre et le papillon. |
| Description: | 131 p. ; 20 cm. |
| Contents: | Prologue -- The wheelchair -- Prayer -- Bathtime -- The alphabet -- The empress -- Cinecitta -- Tourists -- The sausage -- Guardian angel -- The photo -- Yet another coincidence -- The dream -- Voice offstage -- My lucky day -- Our very own Madonna -- Through a glass, darkly -- Paris -- The vegetable -- Outing -- Twenty to one -- The duck hunt -- Sunday -- The ladies of Hong Kong -- The message -- At the wax museum -- The mythmaker -- "A day in the life" -- Season of renewal. |
| Other Titles: | Scaphandre et le papillon. Diving bell and the butterfly |
| Responsibility: | Jean-Dominique Bauby ; translated from the French by Jeremy Leggatt. |
| More information: |
Abstract:
The author, former editor of French Elle magazine, describes surviving the rare stroke to the brain stem that left him with locked-in syndrome. With his mind intact in a nearly totally paralyzed body, he was able to communicate only with his left eye. By turns wistful, mischievous, angry, and witty, Bauby bears witness to his determination to live as fully in his mind as he had been in his body. Again and again he uses his imagination to experience an "inexhaustible reservoir of sensations," keeping in touch with himself and the life around him. Jean-Dominique Bauby died two days after the French publication of his book. This book is his testament to life under the most challenging of circumstances.
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