The French critic Roland Barthes has guru status among literary theorists. Yet his Journal of Mourning opens the door onto his strange personal world. A private diary, it records the day-by-day impact of bereavement as he struggles to live without the most important person in his life: his mother.

Format: Hardcover
Published: in UK in 2011
Publisher: Notting Hill Editions
Pages: 256
Language: English
ISBN 13: 9781907903106
ISBN 10: 1907903100