In the sentence \'She\'s no longer suffering, \' to what, to whom does \'she\' refer? What does that present tense mean? --Roland Barthes, from his diary The day after his mother\'s death in October 1977, Roland Barthes began a diary of mourning.
Named a Top 10 Book of 2010 by The New York Times and one of the Best Books of 2010 by Slate and The Times Literary Supplement , Mourning Diary is a major discovery in Roland Barthes\'s work: a skeleton key to the themes he tackled throughout his life, as well as a unique study of grief--intimate, deeply moving, and universal..
For nearly two years, the legendary French theorist wrote about a solitude new to him; about the ebb and flow of sadness; about the slow pace of mourning, and life reclaimed through writing.
In the sentence \'She\'s no longer suffering, \' to what, to whom does \'she\' refer? What does that present tense mean? --Roland Barthes, from his diary The day after his mother\'s death in October 1977, Roland Barthes began a diary of mourning
