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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Oerhört bra och ärlig undersökning av sorgen. Tankarna kring ämnet är mycket känsliga och originella. Aldrig att han griper efter en fras. Hans bästa bok. Eller åtminstone den jag tycker bäst om så långt.
