In the canon
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
- Form
- Form Memoir
- Year
- Year 1997
- Originally in
- Originally in French
- Pages
- Pages 130
In a hospital room on the Channel coast at Berck, a voice recites the alphabet in order of frequency, over and over, and a left eyelid closes on the letter it wants. That is how this book was made, blink by blink, roughly two hundred thousand of them, after a stroke left Jean-Dominique Bauby's mind entirely intact inside a body that could do nothing at all.
My diving bell becomes less oppressive, and my mind takes flight like a butterfly.
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