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4.12 AVERAGE
4.12 AVERAGE
So many beautiful thoughts, ‘Emotion (emotivity) passes, suffering remains’, ‘I ask for nothing but to live in my suffering’, ‘…my taste for writing gives me this apotropaic or integrative power: I integrate, by language…the very fact that language affords me the word “intolerable” immediately achieves a certain tolerance’.
Why this book - Joyce Carol Oates mentioned it in an interview.
I loved this book. A few quotes:
The desires I had before her death (while she was sick) can no longer be fulfilled, for that would mean it is her death that allows me to fulfill them.
Disappointment of various places and trips. Not really comfortable anywhere. Very soon, this cry: I want to go back! (but where? since she is no longer anywhere, who was once where I could go back). I am seeking my place.
Occasionally (for instance, yesterday, in the courtyard of the Bibliotheque Nationale), how to express that fleeting thought that maman is never again to be here; a sort of black wing (of the definitive) passes over me and chokes my breathing; a pain so acute that it seems as if, in order to survive, I must immediately drift toward something else.
We don't forget,
but something vacant settles in us.
I loved this book. A few quotes:
The desires I had before her death (while she was sick) can no longer be fulfilled, for that would mean it is her death that allows me to fulfill them.
Disappointment of various places and trips. Not really comfortable anywhere. Very soon, this cry: I want to go back! (but where? since she is no longer anywhere, who was once where I could go back). I am seeking my place.
Occasionally (for instance, yesterday, in the courtyard of the Bibliotheque Nationale), how to express that fleeting thought that maman is never again to be here; a sort of black wing (of the definitive) passes over me and chokes my breathing; a pain so acute that it seems as if, in order to survive, I must immediately drift toward something else.
We don't forget,
but something vacant settles in us.
Très sentimental et honnête, comme le titre le suggère. Parfois les réflexions se répètent mais comme il dit si bien : le deuil n’est pas linéaire.
La sensibilité de Barthes qui se dévoile sans masque dans un rapport complexe au temps et au langage qui éclaire la lecture de sa CHAMBRE CLAIRE
کتابی ساده، بیتکلف و عمیق از مواجهه رولان بارت با مرگ مادرش و تاملاتی در باب مرگ و به ویژه مرگ خودش.
dark
emotional
reflective
fast-paced
reflective
sad
slow-paced
Only a woman would be memorialized by the chores she once did.
dark
reflective
sad
tense
medium-paced
touching.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death of parent