Roland Barthes: Mourning Diary — Translated by Richard Howard

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Hill and Wang, paperback

Translated by: Richard Howard

Publication Date: March 13, 2012

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“In the sentence ‘She’s no longer suffering, ‘ to what, to whom does ‘she’ refer? What does that present tense mean?” –Roland Barthes, from his diary

The day after his mother’s death in October 1977, Roland Barthes began a diary of mourning. For nearly two years, the legendary French theorist wrote about a solitude new to him; about the ebb and flow of sadness; about the slow pace of mourning, and life reclaimed through writing. Named a Top 10 Book of 2010 by The New York Times and one of the Best Books of 2010 by Slate and The Times Literary Supplement, Mourning Diary is a major discovery in Roland Barthes’s work: a skeleton key to the themes he tackled throughout his life, as well as a unique study of grief–intimate, deeply moving, and universal.

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