Mourning Diary by Roland Barthes

Mourning Diary

Roland Barthes with Richard Howard (Translator)

260 pages first pub 2009 (editions)

nonfiction memoir philosophy reflective sad slow-paced

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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 ne...

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reflective 81%
sad 77%
emotional 68%
dark 31%
challenging 13%
tense 4%

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medium 36%
fast 27%

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