Mourning Diary

Mourning Diary

<p>"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</p><p>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 <i>The New York Times</i> and one of the Best Books of 2010 by <i>Slate</i> and <i>The Times Literary Supplement</i>, <i>Mourning Diary</i> 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.</p>