by Jean-Dominique Bauby · Cargo · tapa dura · ISBN 9789023428329
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«Vlinders in een duikerpak» is the autobiography of Jean-Dominique Bauby, published by Cargo in hardback (110 pages, in Dutch).
After suffering a stroke in 1995, the author, then editor-in-chief of the French magazine Elle, was left with locked-in syndrome and could only move his left eye. Using a blinking system, he dictated these pages in which he evokes his life, his memories, his fantasies and his inner world from an immobile body.
Dutch translation by Martine Woudt of the French original «Le Scaphandre et le Papillon» (1997); the work was adapted into film as «The Diving Bell and the Butterfly».
For readers of biographies and memoirs, and for those who appreciate testimonies about illness, disability and communication.
Jean-Dominique Bauby was a French journalist, author and editor of the French fashion magazine Elle.
