Le scaphandre et le papillon (The Diving Bell and the Butterfly) (2007)

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Elle France editor Jean-Dominique Bauby, who, in 1995 at the age of 43, suffered a stroke that paralyzed his entire body, except his left eye. Using that eye to blink out his memoir, Bauby eloquently 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.

Books with substantial mentioning of Le scaphandre et le papillon (The Diving Bell and the Butterfly)

		Hilary White (ed.) Magill's Cinema Annual 2008, 27th Edition. A Survey of the films of 2007 Detroit, New York, San Francisco, New Haven, Conn., Waterville, Maine, London, 2008

		David Thomson Have you seen?, A personal introduction to 1,000 films New York, 2008