英文摘要 |
In October 1977, from the next day after the death of his mother, Roland Barthes began to keep a diary, and throughout more than two years, he continued to note what he felt and thought day by day during his mourning. He died in 1980, while these notes would not be published until 2009, under the title of "The Mourning Diary" ("Journal de deuil"), as one more autobiographical work, not included in his 5 volumes anthology of complete works. This book reveals closely knit intertextual relations with his other writings of the same period. But, in contrast to his thematic teaching discourses prepared for the College of France, this work shows another face of the writer, who tried all the time to define his own style of mourning within the flow of everyday life. This article deals specifically with selected notes about certain everyday life details, and analyzes how these apparently trivial topics strongly intervene in his reflections on life, death, time, privation, writing, etc. Finally, it considers the success his diary writing achieved by reference to his own reflections in essays on the genre of diary. |