Brilliant, successful journalist and editor-in-chief of Elle magazine Jean-Dominique Bauby was only 43 years old when he was struck by a stroke that paralyzed his body from head to toe and left his mind intact. The only means of communication was the left eye, which retained the ability to blink.
Brilliant, successful journalist and editor-in-chief of Elle magazine Jean-Dominique Bauby was only 43 years old when he was struck by a stroke that paralyzed his body from head to toe and left his mind intact. The only means of communication was the left eye, which retained the ability to blink. The willpower and love for life of a journalist imprisoned in a “body suit” turned out to be so powerful that he managed to write a book, “travel notes of a motionless person”, managed to find the strength in himself to blink countless times at one or another shown to him assistant letter, which she then wrote down, making up words and sentences from them. Memories, imaginary journeys and fantasies, thought-images (“butterflies”), a restrained and courageous report from the depths of a spacesuit, messages from an unknown, incomprehensible country … This book immediately became famous, was translated into all European languages and filmed.
Ripol classic, 176 p.