TY - GEN AU - Barthes,Roland TI - Mourning diary : : October 26, 1977-September 15, 1979 SN - 9786005759105 AV - P85.B33 PY - 2012/// CY - Tahran PB - Hartman KW - Barthes, Roland KW - Linguists KW - Diaries KW - France KW - Critics KW - Bereavement N1 - The language of the book is Persian N2 - The day after his mother's death in October 1977, the influential philosopher Roland Barthes began a diary of mourning. Taking notes on index cards as was his habit, he reflected on a new solitude, on the ebb and flow of sadness, and on modern society's dismissal of grief. These 330 cards, published here for the first time, prove a skeleton key to the themes he tackled throughout his work. Behind the unflagging mind, "the most consistently intelligent, important, and useful literary critic to have emerged anywhere" (Susan Sontag), lay a deeply sensitive man who cherished his mother with a devotion unknown even to his closest friends ER -