The Diving-Bell and the Butterfly


The Diving-Bell and the Butterfly
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Remarkable

5 years, 2 months ago at Mar 13 17:45
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There's a comment on the back of the novel that says it's remarkable. I tend to agree although it's not remarkable in the sense you would say a book is. It's not remarkable in the writing style, the character work, the story line. Remarkable to me is 1984 and this is no 1984. Yes I'm aware that I'm comparing a non fiction to a fiction but I honestly can't think of any remarkable biographies.
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Description: 4 4 0 0 Amazon Review On December 8, 1995, Jean-Dominique Bauby's life was forever altered when a part of his body he'd never heard of--his brain stem--was rendered inactive. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, his exquisitely painful memoir, is neither a triumphant account of recovery nor a journey into the abyss of self-pity. Inst ... (more)
Manufacturer : Fourth Estate
Release date : 2 April 1998
ISBN-10 : 1857027949 | ISBN-13: 9781857027945
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VierasTalo added this to a list 1 year, 4 months ago
Kirjapäivyri 2012 (13 books items)

"Kindle, englanti Jean-Domonique Bauby joutui aivohalvauksen kohteeksi joulukuussa 1995, jonka johdosta hänen viimeinen elinvuotensa kului sairaalassa. Hän pystyi liikuttamaan päätään hieman, ja kommunikoi räpsyttelemällä vasenta silmäänsä. Näin hän sitten onnistui sanelemaan tämän kirjan avustajalleen. Bauby kuvaa kauniilla proosalla arkista elämäänsä ennen ja jälkeen aivohalvauksen, ja kutsuu lukijan yllättävänkin syvälle locked in-syndroomaiseen ruumiiseensa. Hän o"


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Raven posted a review 5 years, 2 months ago

Remarkable

“There's a comment on the back of the novel that says it's remarkable. I tend to agree although it's not remarkable in the sense you would say a book is. It's not remarkable in the writing style, the character work, the story line. Remarkable to me is 1984 and this is no 1984. Yes I'm aware that I'm comparing a non fiction to a fiction but I honestly can't think of any remarkable biographies.

What is remarkable about this novel is how it came into being. You can't help but think about this man lying there being unable to move except for one eyelid. You have more of a tendency to appreciate his every word and the effort that went into it knowing how he dictated it. For those that don't know about Bauby, he had Locked in Syndrome and was only able to communicate via blinking which ” read more

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2008 Reading List (99 books items)
Raven added this to a list 5 years, 3 months ago