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With the same trademark compassion and erudition he brought to The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Oliver Sacks explores the place music occupies in the brain and how it affects the human condition. In Musicophilia, he shows us a variety of what he calls “musical misalignments.” Among them: a man struck by lightning who suddenly desires to become a pianist at the age of forty-two; an entire group of children with Williams syndrome, who are hypermusical from birth; people with “amusia,” to whom a symphony sounds like the clattering of pots and pans; and a man whose memory spans only seven seconds-for everything but music. Illuminating, inspiring, and utterly unforgettable, Musicophilia is Oliver Sacks’ latest masterpiece.
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Musicophilia, Oliver Sacks
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- Année de publication
- 2007
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- Titre
- Musicophilia
- Sous-titre
- Tales of Music and the Brain
- Langue
- Anglais
- Auteurs
- Oliver Sacks
- Éditeur
- Picador
- Publié
- 2007
- Format
- souple
- Pages
- 381
- ISBN10
- 0330444360
- ISBN13
- 9780330444361
- Séries
- Mots clés
- Nonfiction, Art, Thématique musicale, Psychologie, Science, Autobiographies et mémoires, Santé, Médecine, Biographies, Presse d'opinion & Essais, Santé mentale, 21e siècle, Neurosciences
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- With the same trademark compassion and erudition he brought to The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Oliver Sacks explores the place music occupies in the brain and how it affects the human condition. In Musicophilia, he shows us a variety of what he calls “musical misalignments.” Among them: a man struck by lightning who suddenly desires to become a pianist at the age of forty-two; an entire group of children with Williams syndrome, who are hypermusical from birth; people with “amusia,” to whom a symphony sounds like the clattering of pots and pans; and a man whose memory spans only seven seconds-for everything but music. Illuminating, inspiring, and utterly unforgettable, Musicophilia is Oliver Sacks’ latest masterpiece.