Books of The Times - ‘Mourning Diary’ by Roland Barthes, a Son’s Grief - NYTimes.com:
““Mourning Diary” is a slender volume that one wants to linger over, to devour slowly. Barthes’s mother’s death brought out something in him, a clarity he describes as “a strange new acuity, seeing (in the street) people’s ugliness or their beauty.””
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