00:00Three books that address the theme of grief. All three do so in different ways, so I recommend them.
00:04depending on what you need.
00:06The first is Lewis's A Grief Observed. It's the diary Lewis wrote after his wife's death.
00:10without filters, putting down on paper the anger, the sense of bewilderment, the doubt and even the crisis of faith.
00:17It describes very well how mourning is a chaotic and unpredictable experience, far from any romantic idea of pain.
00:25Burnt Child by Stig Dagerman. Dagerman explores grief without idealizing it, showing how uncomfortable and contradictory it can be.
00:34It is a book that talks about loss, but also about everything that emerges when the people who are with us are missing.
00:39they define us.
00:40At times it may even seem a little strange, because it forces you to deal with the most fragile parts
00:45and less confessable than human beings.
00:48Finally, Han Kang's The White Book.
00:49This is more of a meditation on grief, it is a very delicate book that does not tell the pain, but lets it emerge
00:56between the words, in the voids and in the silences.
00:59It is a very delicate and profound reflection on memory and the fragility of existence, on everything that remains when
01:07a life ends and on everything we continue to carry inside even when we no longer know how to say it.
