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Title	:	The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Author	:	Jean-Dominique Bauby
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 132 pages
Published	:	June 23rd 1998 by Vintage (first published 1997)
Categories	:	Nonfiction. Autobiography. Memoir. Biography

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

Jean-Dominique Bauby

Paperback | Pages: 132 pages

Rating: 4.01 | 55637 Users | 4418 Reviews

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‘Locked-in syndrome: paralysed from head to toe, the patient, his mind intact, is imprisoned inside his own body, unable to speak or move. In my case, blinking my left eyelid is my only means of communication.’ In December 1995, Jean-Dominique Bauby, editor-in-chief of French ‘Elle’ and the father of two young children, suffered a massive stroke and found himself paralysed and speechless, but entirely conscious, trapped by what doctors call ‘locked-in syndrome’. Using his only functioning muscle – his left eyelid – he began dictating this remarkable story, painstakingly spelling it out letter by letter. His book offers a haunting, harrowing look inside the cruel prison of locked-in syndrome, but it is also a triumph of the human spirit.

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Original Title:	Le Scaphandre et le Papillon
ISBN:	0375701214 (ISBN13: 9780375701214)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Jean-Dominique Bauby
Setting:	France Berck-sur-Mer(France)

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This book involves 28 short stories, or you can say, pieces of memory from the former editor of French Elle magazine, Jean-Dominique Bauby, who was permanently paralyzed after a severe stroke. His only way of communication was by blinking his left eye and that was how he patiently spelled this book out. As he put it, and I firmly believed in him, that his main task was to "compose the first of these bedridden travel notes so that I shall be ready when my publisher's emissary arrives to take my

Check out my blog to see Reviews of Book and Movies, and check out some Recipes!This was definitely a quick and interesting read. I have actually never seen the movie, and this was my first time getting around to reading the book. The write Jean-Dominique Bauby wrote with the aid of a "translator" that had to have taken an extensive amount of time. Jean-Dominique, former editor in chief of Elle magazine, becomes a quadriplegic after a stroke affects his brain stem. He can only communicate in a

Words flow like the images and emotions of poetry. One thought leads to another. The rambling mind touches like a butterfly, just long enough to draw the essence from a story, and then moves fluidly to another. Jean-Dominique Bauby's body was an immobile weighty shell; the diving bell his perfect simile. Yet in his head he roved the world and composed the words that would let us in. Intent on looking for the cure to let him move again, he moves forward in his final words "We must keep looking.

This book is simply beautiful. I wish my French was still good enough to read the original version, but this was still an incredible translation.It reads more like a series of vignettes, and Bauby's writing is just gorgeous. This is a quick read--it's under 200 pages, and the text itself doesn't take up much of the page--but it is incredibly emotionally impactful.

A Small Book with a Big Soul Jean-Dominique Bauby's "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly" is a small book composed of many big wonders. Primary among this book's extraordinary qualities is the fact that Bauby, a former editor in chief of the world-famous French Elle, was able to "write" it at all. after suffering a stroke to his brain stem and spending 20 days in a coma, Bauby regained command of a nearly clairvoyant intellect but lost all authority over his body. The sole physical function he

This is one of those books where the story behind the story was more interesting to me than the book itself. For those who don't know, Jean-Dominique Bauby (the former editor-in-chief of French Elle) had a stroke in his mid 40s that left him with a body entirely paralyzed but a mind fully intact. This is referred to as locked-in syndrome, a condition that, in the author's words, is "like a mind in a jar."The one part of his body that Bauby could move was his left eyelid. Remarkably, he was able

**spoiler alert**In 1995, Jean-Dominique Bauby, the editor-in-chief of French Elle magazine, suffered a massive stroke to his brain stem which left him totally paralyzed and in a condition called locked-in syndrome. He could only move his left eyelid. For my part, I would have preferred to have died instantly than to have suffered what Mr. Bauby suffered. But we don't always get to choose, and to his credit he seems to have made the best of his situation. He did write this book after all, but