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    The Diving Bell and the Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby (Book Analysis): Detailed Summary, Analysis and Reading Guide
    The Diving Bell and the Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby (Book Analysis): Detailed Summary, Analysis and Reading Guide
    The Diving Bell and the Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby (Book Analysis): Detailed Summary, Analysis and Reading Guide
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    Unlock the more straightforward side of The Diving Bell and the Butterfly with this concise and insightful summary and analysis!

    This engaging summary presents an analysis of The Diving Bell and the Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby, an autobiographical account of his life with locked-in syndrome following a massive stroke at the age of just 43. His entire body is paralysed apart from his left eyelid, but he miraculously learns how to express himself in the richest detail by blinking to select each letter as the alphabet is read out to him. By turns wistful, mischievous, angry and witty, Bauby’s account sold 25 000 copies on the first day of sales and went on to sell millions of copies across Europe and beyond. Despite dying only days after the publication of his groundbreaking novel, the famous editor and author’s memory lives on through this outstanding book.

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    LanguageEnglish
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    Release dateOct 12, 2016
    ISBN9782806280923
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      The Diving Bell and the Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby (Book Analysis) - Bright Summaries

      FRENCH JOURNALIST AND WRITER

      Born in Paris in 1952.

      Died in Berck-sur-Mer (Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France) in 1997.

      Notable works:

      Raoul Lévy, un aventurier du cinéma (Raoul Lévy, an adventurer of the cinema, 1995), biography

      The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (1997), autobiographical novel

      Jean-Dominique Bauby worked as editor-in-chief of the women’s magazine ELLE and had a passion for journalism and life in general. His world came crashing down on 8 December 1995, when he suffered a stroke and fell into a deep coma. When he woke up from it, he was suffering from locked-in syndrome, meaning that although his mental faculties were intact, he was entirely paralysed and could no longer move, eat, speak or even breathe without assistance. This syndrome had been described in The Count of Monte Cristo (1845) by Alexandre Dumas, père (French writer, 1802-1870), but it was not until 1947 that the first case of this rare neurological disorder was medically diagnosed. Bauby's novel The Diving Bell and the Butterfly allowed the general public to learn how it feels to be imprisoned in one's own body, but the author passed away just days after it was first published in 1997.

      A HEARTRENDING PERSONAL STORY

      Genre: autobiographical novel

      Reference edition: Bauby, J. (2008) The Diving Bell and the Butterfly. London:

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