Jean-dominique bauby biography of christopher columbus
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37. Christopher and Columbus by Elizabeth von Arnim
I am very grateful to Erica Brown for giving a paper on Elizabeth von Arnim’s excellent novel Christopher and Columbus (1919) at the conference I attended recently, as it was the incentive I needed to read it. Not that I needed a lot of incentive – I loved both The Enchanted April and The Caravaners, as clicking on those titles will attest. The former was very sweet, almost sentimental, in its depiction of the changing powers of a beautiful place; the latter was a bitingly ironic first-person account of an unpleasant, war-mongering German on a caravanning trip in England. It would be difficult to think of two more different novels coming from the same author, and I wondered where my third von Arnim experience could possibly take me. As it turned out, right in between the two – Christopher and Columbus is often very cynical, in an incredibly funny way, and yet also very endearing.
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Bradley, Katherine; Cooper, Edith. Ed(S): Bic...
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press United States
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813927510
- ISBN
- 9780813927510
Hardback
Condition: New
Book details
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Stroke victim shares his insights
This sounds almost like the setup to a tall tale.
In 1995, Jean-Dominique Bauby, the French editor of the fashion magazine Elle, suffered a stroke that left his mind intact but the rest of his body paralyzed -- except for his left eye.
Within two years, he had written a memoir of his experience, blinking one letter at a time.
The book Bauby dictated is the source for The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, another drama in the tradition of The Miracle Worker and My Left Foot, of a determined person overcoming unimaginable limitations to share thoughts and feelings with the world beyond his immediate reach.
That would be enough to give Diving Bell a reason to milk our emotions, but Julian Schnabel, the American artist-turned-filmmaker who directed Basquiat and Before Night Falls, gives his film an extra dimension by taking us into the shell that has imprisoned Bauby.
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