by Jean-Dominique Bauby · Harper Perennial · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780007139842
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«The Diving-Bell and the Butterfly» is the memoir by Jean-Dominique Bauby, published by Harper Perennial in paperback (144 pages, in English).
After suffering a massive stroke, Jean-Dominique Bauby, editor of the French magazine Elle, is left with locked-in syndrome: he can only move his left eyelid. With it he dictated these memoirs, letter by letter through blinks, a narrative in which memory and imagination sustain his inner life.
English «Film tie-in» edition; the original French title is «Le Scaphandre et le Papillon» (1997).
For readers of memoirs and biographies, and for those seeking testimonies about disability and life after a stroke.
Jean-Dominique Bauby was a French journalist, author and editor of the French fashion magazine Elle.
