![]() ![]() In magical sequences, he imagines traveling to other places and times of lying next to the woman he loves. He explains the joy, and the deep sadness, of seeing his children and of hearing his aged father's voice on the phone. By turns wistful, mischievous, angry and witty, Bauby bears witness to his determination to live as fully in his mind as he had been able to in his body. ![]() ![]() In the same way, he was eventually able to compose this extraordinary book. Almost miraculously, he was soon able to express himself in the richest detail, blinking to select letters one by one as a special alphabet was slowly recited to him, over and over again. After twenty days in a coma, Bauby awoke into a body that had all but stopped working: only his left eye functioned, allowing him to see and, by blinking, to make clear that his mind was unimpaired. By the end of the year he was also the victim of a rare kind of stroke to the brain stem. In 1995, Jean-Dominique Bauby was the editor in chief of French Elle, the father of two young children, a forty-three-year-old man known and loved for his wit, his style, and his impassioned approach to life. ![]()
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