Oliver W. Sacks

Frigyes Karinthy

Vernon Duckworth Barker

The distinguished Hungarian author Frigyes Karinthy was sitting in a Budapest café, wondering whether to write a long-planned monograph on modern man or a new play, when he was disturbed by the roaring—so loud as to drown out all other noises—of a passing train. Soon it was gone, only to be succeeded by another. And another. Strange, Karinthy thought, it had been years since Budapest had streetcars. Only then did he realize he was suffering from an auditory hallucination of extraordinary intensity. What in fact Karinthy was suffering from was a brain tumor, not cancerous but hardly benign, though it was only much later—after spells of giddiness, fainting fits, friends remarking that his handwriting had altered, and books going blank before his eyes—that he consulted a doctor and embarked on a series of examinations that would lead to brain surgery. Karinthy’s description of his descent into illness and his observations of his symptoms, thoughts, and feelings, as well as of his friends’ and doctors’ varied responses to his predicament, are exact and engrossing and entirely free of self-pity. A Journey Round My Skull is not only an extraordinary piece of medical testimony, but a powerful work of literature—one that dances brilliantly on the edge of extinction.

A Journey Round My Skull

Ahogy vonakodva, akadékoskodva ... végre mégis felkecmergek a lépcsőn, egyszerre mély csüggedéssel eszmélek rá, mi taszít úgy innen. Itt, ezen a lépcsőn álltam meg három héttel ezelőtt, s mint valami viccet, groteszk gondolatot dobtam oda hetyke ötletemet: nekem agydaganatom van.

Utazás a koponyám körül

Tanár úr kérem

változatok egy ünnepre

Karácsonyi társasjáték

Kafatasimin Etrafinda Yolculuk

válogatott cikkek

Hátrálva a világ körül

L'homme responsable

Versek

Nem Mondhatom El Senkinek

A lelek arca

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Tanar Ur Kerem

Circus

paródiák

Így írtok ti

Satiren und Erzählungen

Bitte, Herr Professor

Plutó e torzót márványból szoborta Ó torzók torza, bőrző Dunakorzó Ó korzók korza, őrző dunnaorzó Mint ferde torta és megint retorta.

Frigyes Karinthy era el columnista más popular de Budapest, en 1936, cuando se enteró de que tenía un tumor cerebral y que debía operarse de urgencia para sobrevivir. El único cirujano que podía hacerlo estaba en Suecia. Una colecta le permitió llegar a Estocolmo y enfrentar el bisturí. Con el desparpajo y la agudeza que lo caracterizaban, Karinthy contó paso a paso la experiencia a sus lectores, a través de su columna semanal en la prensa. Meticuloso y alucinatorio, burlón y emocionante, egocéntrico y universal, su libro es simultáneamente una novela de intriga y un caso clínico, un viaje al fondo del miedo y una bitácora de la resistencia, el chisporroteo de un espíritu brillante y el anticipo del derrumbe del humanismo que Europa padecería poco después. "Decidí ser neurólogo por un libro que leí a los quince años. Ese libro fue después mi modelo, cuando yo mismo me puse a escribir. Se llama Viaje alrededor de mi cráneo y lo considero una obra maestra, el mejor retrato autobiográfico que he leído en mi vida sobre un viaje al interior del cerebro." OLIVER SACKS

Viaje alrededor de mi cráneo

Frigyes Karinthy

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