The Mourning Diary
ISBN:
9781907903106 (1907903100)
Publish date: 2011
Publisher: Notting Hill Editions
Pages no: 254
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Autobiography,
Memoir,
Biography,
Literature,
European Literature,
Cultural,
20th Century,
Philosophy,
France,
French Literature,
Death,
Diary,
Journal
Barthes' mother died on October 25, 1977. Her son, Roland, being an invalid-type had been nursed and coddled by her most of his life, but in their years of his mother's illness adopted the role of nurse himself. Barthes' relationship with his mother was one of extreme intimacy: he lived with her his...