- The Diving Bell and the Butterfly - Jean-Dominique Bauby - Books

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  • LOCKED IN SYNDROM  

    The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (Paperback)
    This very short book which reads very easily to cause serious problems writing to the author reaches the Locked-in Syndrome. He dictated letter by letter, blinking eyelid to guess the words. An astounding testimony of those with severe disabilities,
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  • "When you have more words, no words are too."  

    The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (Paperback)
    The story of a man (editor of Elle) who one day suffered the locked-in syndrome (stroke) and plunges into a coma and just spring with his left eye operated. It can communicate through an alphabet process done for such cases. He knows he is condemned
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  • Upsetting 9  

    The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (Paperback)
    A well written book that we discover a disease that can happen to us all and that we know very little. I did not expect to be hit at this point. I thought "even a book about a rare, yet pathetic book". Well no! this book is absolutely not pathet
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  • Beautiful 49 1  

    The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (Paperback)
    A very simple style without frioriture ... at first it disconcerts. Then we understand: this book is a hymn to life and hope. The author describes what his life "before" and what it is now, while he is suffering from "locked-in" syndro
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  • a great life lesson  

    The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (Paperback)
    We complain regularly about this and other small details that we grieve, questions "existential" that undermine us ... But is it really existential? This is the question we ask ourselves by reading this book! The writer describes us his physical
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  • Happiness to live  

    The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (Paperback)
    I opened the book this morning and my eyes did more leaves until his last line. Despite the tears this book is above all a hymn to life. I'm not unscathed. Each should possess a copy and should read it when everything seems vain. Mr Baudy thank you!
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