Oliver Sacks
“A series of heart-rending yet ultimately uplifting essays….A...
"Sacks has turned hallucinations from something bizarre and frightening into something that seems part of...
“Powerful and compassionate. . . . A book that not only contributes to our understanding of the elusive magic of music but also illuminates the strange workings, and misfirings, of the human mind.”...
“Elaborate and gorgeously detailed.... Again and again, Sacks invites readers to imagine their way into...
Here are seven detailed narratives of neurological patients, including a surgeon consumed by the compulsive tics of...
"Sacks's total immersion in island life makes this luminous, beautifully written report a wonderous voyage...
7) On the Move
When Oliver Sacks was twelve years old, a perceptive schoolmaster wrote: “Sacks will go far, if he does not go...
Oliver Sacks, scientist and storyteller, is beloved by readers for his neurological case histories and his fascination and familiarity with...
11) Gratitude
The remarkable journey of an award-winning writer struck with a rare and devastating affliction that prevented him from reading even his own writing
One hot midsummer morning, novelist Howard Engel picked up his newspaper from his front step and discovered he could no longer read it. The letters had mysteriously jumbled themselves into something that looked like Cyrillic one moment and Korean the next. While he slept, Engel had experienced
13) Gratitud
En febrero de 2015, Oliver Sacks recibió la noticia de que el melanoma que le habían diagnosticado en el ojo diez años antes había hecho metástasis y ahora le afectaba al hígado. Se trataba de un tipo de cáncer con muy pocas opciones de tratamiento, y los médicos le pronosticaron que no le quedaban más de seis meses de vida. A los pocos días escribió el ensayo «De mi propia vida», en el que expresaba su inmenso sentimiento de gratitud
...When neuroscientist Susan Barry was fifty years old, she experienced the sense of immersion in a three dimensional world for the first time. Skyscrapers on street corners appeared to loom out toward her like the bows of giant ships. Tree branches projected upward and outward, enclosing and commanding palpable volumes of space. Leaves created intricate mosaics in 3D.
Barry had...