Fiction
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Jean-Dominique Bauby's memoir, in the Vintage International paperback, was dictated one blink at a time after a stroke left him with only the use of his left eye. The book is short because the method made anything else impossible, and its brevity becomes part of its force. Bauby moves between hospital routine and imagined journeys, between rage and appetite, without asking for pity. Vintage's edition preserves the original French title's metaphor and presents the text plainly.For readers who want a memoir about consciousness under extreme constraint, written by someone who refused to romanticize it.
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