The Man with a Shattered World

The History of a Brain Wound

A. R. Luria

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$32.50 • £26.95 • €29.50

ISBN 9780674546257

Publication Date: 04/30/1987

Short

192 pages

5-1/4 x 8 inches

2 line illustrations

World

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Foreword to the 1987 Edition [Oliver Sacks]
Concerning the Book and Its Author
From the Author
The Past
War
After Being Wounded
The Rehabilitation Hospital
Our First Meeting
Excerpt from Case History No. 3712
A Brief Summary of Brain Anatomy (The First Digression)
First Steps in a Shattered World
His Vision
His Body
Space
Reading
A Student Again
Writing, the Turning Point
“The Story of a Terrible Brain Injury”
Why Did He Write?
“My World Has No Memories”
“My Memories Came Back from the Wrong End”
The Peculiar Features of His “Speech-Memory”
On Recollecting Words (The Second Digression)
Restricted to Undeciphered Images, Disembodied Ideas
Grammatical Constructions (The Third Digression)
“All My Knowledge Is Gone”
A Story That Has No Ending
“Were It Not for War…” (In Place of an Epilogue)
Index

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