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H The Man WITH A Shattered World THE HISTORY
OF A DRAIN
WOUND
A. R. WITH A
LURIA FOREWORD
BY
Oliver Sacks
BOSTON PUBLIC LIBRARY
The Man with a
SHATTERED
WORLD
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2015
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The History
of a Brain
Wound
The Man with a
SHATTERED
WORLD A. R. Luria Translated from the Russian by
Lynn
Solotaroff
With a foreword by Oliver Sacks
HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS
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© 1972 by Michael Cole Foreword copyright © 1987 by Oliver Sacks Copyright
All rights reserved.
Printed in the United States of America 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2
library of congress CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION data Luriia, A. R. (Aleksandr
Romanovich), 1902-
The man with
a shattered world.
Translation
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of:
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,
York
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Basic Books, Inc.,
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injuries
Wounds and 4.
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injuries
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0-674-54625-3
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-Complications and sequelae
Perception, Disorders
ISBN
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617\481044'0924
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86-31866
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1
2
Contents Foreword by Oliver Sacks Concerning the Book and
From the Author The Past 3
War
vii
Its
Author
xix
xxi
6
After Being
Wounded
The Rehabilitation Our F irst Meeting
8
Hospital
14
1
Excerpt from Case History No. 37 1
A Brief Summary of Brain Anatomy Digression)
(
The
First
2 2
First Steps in a Shattered
His Vision
World
36
36
His Body Space
21
41
46
Reading
61
A Student Again
65
Writing, the Turning Point
“The Story
7
of a Terrible Brain Injury”
76
v
5
CONTENTS
VI
Why Did He Write? 83 My World Has No Memories” “My
Memories Came Back from
87 the
Wrong End”
95
The
Peculiar Features of His IOI
On
Recollecting IO9
“Speech-Memory” J
Words ( The Second
Digression)
Restricted to Undeciphered Images, Disembodied Ideas 1 1
Grammatical Constructions (The Third Digression)
122
My Knowledge Is Gone” A Story That Has No Ending “All
“Were
It
Not for War
Epilogue)
Index
1
61
159
.
.
.” (In
1
1
39 57
Place of an
Foreword
to the 1987 Edition Oliver Sacks
Aleksandr Romanovich Luria’s extraordinarily productive
life
spanned the greater part of
this
century
(1902-1977) and saw the profoundest changes in our
own lifetime enof human thought,
approaches to brain and mind. His
deavor was to explore the texture
ways in which it could be damaged or disordered, and the