{"product_id":"9781429977074","title":"Mourning Diary","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA major discovery: The lost diary of a great mind—and an intimate, deeply moving study of grief\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe day after his mother's death in October 1977, the influential philosopher Roland Barthes began a diary of mourning. Taking notes on index cards as was his habit, he reflected on a new solitude, on the ebb and flow of sadness, and on modern society's dismissal of grief. These 330 cards, published here for the first time, prove a skeleton key to the themes he tackled throughout his work. Behind the unflagging mind, \"the most consistently intelligent, important, and useful literary critic to have emerged anywhere\" (Susan Sontag), lay a deeply sensitive man who cherished his mother with a devotion unknown even to his closest friends.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47127868178672,"sku":"9781429977074","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781429977074_p0.jpg?v=1763749128","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781429977074","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}