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A review by mal0ureads
Mourning Diary by Roland Barthes
5.0
I hadn't heard of this work by Barthes before hearing Ocean Vuong talk about it in a podcast as being an example of fragmentary writing that has inspired him as well as Maggie Nelson.
Barthes wrote thoughts on little notecards the two years after his mother passed away which were published as a collection in this book. We learn almost nothing about her, only getting a deeply painful look at how Barthes was (thinking) in the aftermath of her death. He himself dies about 6 months after the last card, presumably just as he is beginning to come to terms with his mother's death...
I think I'll be returning to it in times of mourning.
Barthes wrote thoughts on little notecards the two years after his mother passed away which were published as a collection in this book. We learn almost nothing about her, only getting a deeply painful look at how Barthes was (thinking) in the aftermath of her death. He himself dies about 6 months after the last card, presumably just as he is beginning to come to terms with his mother's death...
I think I'll be returning to it in times of mourning.