The Diving-bell and the Butterfly |
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 | The enthusiasm for life that Jean-Dominique Bauby demonstrated in the whole book was amazing. And it was not for a matter of faiths or beliefs, but for a simple and pure love of life and everything that's part of it. Like the way he makes up recipes and tastes in his mind, or he listen to soft voices in his head that he calls butterflies. And even the way he classifies and changes the whole world around him, making it more exciting and new even if at the same time he is perfectly aware of his situation and of the way this makes his relatives and friends feel. He perfectly knows that they don't know anything about what's still inside this man that they see, who is so different from the one they knew before. He knows that his kids treat him different, and that everybody keeps going on with their lives without him, and then visits and tries to hide the tears. And this awareness which usually would make anyone fall into an absolute despair became for him a pretext to appreciate what he ... read more.
Written by Jean-Dominique Bauby.
Published 01 March 1998.
Published by Chivers Large print (Chivers, Windsor, Paragon&C.
rrp £14.99.
96 pages Hardcover.
ISBN: 0754031519
ISBN-13: 9780754031512 | |
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