Title : The Diving Bell and the Butterfly - Jean-Dominique Bauby - book

Summary :

On December 8, 1995, a sudden stroke plunged Jean-Dominique Bauby into a deep coma. When he emerged, all his motor functions had deteriorated. Suffering from what medicine calls "locked-in syndrome" - literally: locked inside himself - he could no longer move, eat, speak, or even simply breathe without assistance. In this inert body, only one eye moves. This eye - the left one - is his connection to the world, to others, to life. With his eye, he blinks once to say "yes," twice to say "no." With his eye, he focuses his visitor's attention on the letters of the alphabet dictated to him and forms words, sentences, entire pages... With his eye, he wrote this book: every morning for weeks, he memorized the pages before dictating them, then correcting them. Beneath the glass bubble of his diving suit, where butterflies flutter, he sends us these postcards from a world we can only imagine—a world where nothing remains but a mind at work. The mind is by turns sarcastic and disenchanted, with an intensity that grips the heart. When all you have left are words, no words are too many.

• EAN : 9782221081723
  
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