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132 unnumbered pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
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. By the end of the year he was also the victim of a rare kind of stroke to the brain stem. 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,...
3) La escafandra y la mariposa: un sobrecogedor testimonio sobre los límites de la naturaleza humana
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160 pages ; 22 cm
Language
Español
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1 videodisc (112 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
The story of Jean-Dominique Bauby, French editor of Elle magazine, who suffered a stroke at the age of 43, paralyzing his entire body except his left eye. Using that eye to blink out his memoir, Bauby described the aspects of his interior world, from the psychological torment of being trapped inside his body to his imagined stories from lands he'd only visited in his mind.
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