Mourning Diary

Name: Mourning Diary
SKU: 9781907903106
Price: 14.99 GBP
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Author: Roland Barthes

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The French critic Roland Barthes has guru status among literary theorists.

This private diary opens the door onto his strange personal world, recording, day-by-day, the impact of bereavement as he struggled to live without the most important person in his life: his mother. This work by Roland Barthes is introduced by Professor Michael Wood.

‘Precise and touching memories intersect with spare and at times desperate notes on time, death, and grief.’

Julian Barnes

‘It is precisely the fragmentary nature of Mourning Diary – its eruptions and silences – that makes it monumental. In its "incomplete" form, the diary mimics the slippery, episodic, repetitive, and inconclusive nature of grief. It offers a rare mirror of a process that is usually private or summoned in reflection.’

Slate

‘Mourning Diary, like nearly all of Barthes’s books, is a collection of beginnings, of fugitive and conjectural observations that lap over one another and push forward like successive waves onto a beach.’

New York Times