![]() ![]() He explains the joy and deep sadness of seeing his children and of hearing his aged father's voice on the phone. In the same way, he was able, eventually, to compose this extraordinary book.īy turns wistful, mischievous, angry, and witty, Bauby bears witness to his determination to live as fully in his mind as he had been able to do in his body. After 20 days in a coma, Bauby awoke into a body which had all but stopped working: only his left eye functioned, allowing him to see and, by blinking it, to make clear that his mind was unimpaired.Īlmost miraculously, he was soon able to express himself in the richest detail, dictating a word at a time, blinking to select each letter as the alphabet was recited to him slowly, over and over again. By the end of the year, he was also the victim of a rare kind of stroke to the brain stem. ![]() In 1995, 44-year-old Jean-Dominique Bauby was the editor-in-chief of French Elle, the father of two young children, and a man known and loved for his wit, his style, and his impassioned approach to life. ![]()
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