A review by mms19
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby

3.0

I watched the poignant and engrossing movie that was based on this memoir, and then I read the memoir. Both describe the post-stroke life of one with locked-in syndrome, a mind intact but disconnected from body. Both compel empathy and imagination as to what it would be like. Both give a glimpse of the feat that was the memoir’s creation. Both give perspective on the richness of consciousness. The movie is better, but there is much to the memoir.

I do wonder how much editorial assistance the memoir received. Autobiography or biography?