Diving-Bell & the Butterfly (Radio Collection) Reviews 
Whilst suffering from a condition whereby he was unable to speak and his only movement was the blinking of an eyelid, Jean-Dominique Bauby devised a code for each letter of the alphabet and dictated this book about his experiences and feelings. He died just after it was published.We?ve all got our idiosyncrasies when it comes to writing?a special chair we have to sit in, a certain kind of yellow paper we absolutely must use. To create this tremendously affecting memoir, Jean-Dominique Bauby used the only tool available to him?his left eye?with which he blinked out its short chapters, letter by letter. Two years ago, Bauby, then the 43-year-old editor-in-chief of Elle France, suffered a rare stroke to the brain stem; only his left eye and brain escaped damage. Rather than accept his ?locked in? situation as a kind of death, Bauby ignited a fire of the imagination under himself and lived his last days?he died two days after the French publication of this slim volume?spirit (More?)
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