The Diving Bell And The Butterfly4

The Diving Bell And The Butterfly

Unique, agonising and unbearably poignant, Jean-Dominique Bauby’s story is one of the most remarkable imaginable. In 1997, a massive stroke left the editor of French Elle magazine with a condition known as “locked-in syndrome”: fully conscious but paralysed, save his left eye. Using only blinks, Bauby ‘dictated’, letter by letter, a miraculous memoir of his experience. It was published to huge acclaim. He died three days later.

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