Mourning diary : October 26, 1977-September 15, 1979 / Roland Barthes ; text established and annotated by Nathalie Léger ; translated from the French by Richard Howard.

• Forward / Nathalie Léger -- Mourning diary: October 26, 1977-June 21, 1978 -- Continuation of the diary: June 24, 1978-October 25, 1978 -- Further diary pages: October 25, 1978-September 15, 1979 -- Some undated fragments -- Some notes on Maman -- Afterword / Richard Hward.

• The day after his mother's death in 1977, Barthes began a diary of mourning. He reflected on the ebb and flow of sadness, and on modern society's quick dismissal of it. He provides a unique study of grief: intimate, deeply moving, and universal 

Ämnesord

Linguists  -- France -- Diaries (LCSH)

Critics  -- France -- Diaries (LCSH)

Bereavement  (LCSH)

Personnamn

Barthes, Roland -- Diaries

Klassifikation

P85.B33 (LCC)

410.92B (DDC)

F:k (kssb/8 (machine generated))