num_pages: 2
description: This memoir was literally composed with a blind of an eye. By turns mischievous, angry, and wistful, the former editor French Elle shares the joys and sadness that crept over him when he became afflicted with a disease that left his entire body paralyzed -- except for his left eye, which he learned to use with a blinking alphabet to communicate with the rest of the world. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly is an unforgettable account of Bauby's own determination to live as fully in his mind as he had been able to in his body.
language: English
title: The Diving-bell and the Butterfly
titlecomplete: The Diving-bell and the Butterfly
characters: Jean-Dominique Bauby
genres: Medicine, Biography, France, Memoir, Nonfiction, Autobiography, Classics, Biography Memoir, Medical, Disability
ratings_count: 70860
places: France, Berck-sur-Mer
publisher: BBC Audiobooks