Mourning Diary

Synopsis

"in the sentence ‘she's no longer suffering, ' to what, to whom does ‘she' refer? What does that present tense mean? " ―roland barthes, from his diarythe day after his mother's death in october 1977, roland barthes began a diary of mourning. For nearly two years, the legendary french theorist wrote about a solitude new to him; about the ebb and flow of sadness; about the slow pace of mourning, and life reclaimed through writing.