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 s Musicophilia - Oliver Sacks od authora Oliver Sacks a nakladatelství za skvělé ceny na e-shopu Martinus. cz.
| Autor |
Oliver Sacks |
| Jazyk |
anglický |
| Rok vydání |
2008 |
| Žánr |
naučná |
| Nakladatelství |
Saga Egmont International |
