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Julian Schnabel’s motion picture adaptation of "The Diving-Bell and the Butterfly" was been nominated for 4 Academy Awards and won Golden Globe awards for best director and best foreign-language film, while Vintage’s edition of Jean-Dominique Bauby’s book returned to The New York Times best-seller.
After suffering a massive stroke, Jean-Dominique Bauby, editor-in-chief of French Elle and the father of two young children, found himself completely paralysed and speechless. Able only to move one eyelid, he ‘dictated’ this remarkable book.
The Diving-Bell and the Butterfly records Bauby’s lonely existence but also the ability to invent a life for oneself in the most appalling of circumstances. It is a remarkable book about the triumph of the human spirit.
‘We listen, because what he has to say goes to the core of what it means to be human’ -- Robert McCrum, Observer
‘Read this book and fall back in love with life’ -- Edmund White
‘The most remarkable memoir of our time’ -- Cynthia Ozick
‘A staggering piece of work. It represents an almost inconceivable act of generosity, the act of the mind and the spirit for which writing was designed’ -- A.L.Kennedy
First published in 1997, rights were sold in 29 languages. Publishers include: Editions Robert Laffont in France, Knopf in the US, Fourth Estate in the UK, Zsolnay in Germany, Ponte alle Grazie in Italy, Kodansha in Japan, and Albert Bonniers in Sweden.
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23 languages
Brazil: Fontes
China: ThinKingdom Media
Czech: Jota
Dutch: De Bezige Bij
Finnish: Werner Söderstrom
German: Zsolnay
Greek: Psichogios
Hungarian: µPark
Indonesian: Mizan
Italian: Ponte della Grazie
Lithuania: Incognito
Japanese: Kodansha
Polish: Terytoria
Portuguese: Livros do Brazil
Romanian: Humanitas
Russia: Ripol
Sweden: Albert Bonniers
Spanish, Catalan: Planeta
Taiwan: Locus
Thai: Butterfly
UK: Fourth Estate
US: Vintage
Vietnam: Thai Ha
Audiovisual Rights : Kennedy Marshall/Pathé |
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