The best novels by Oliver Sacks

Oliver Sacks he wrote books which started from his experience as a university professor in Neurology, but in the form of the novel. So everyone can read his works on a fantastic journey inside the mind. When psychological storylines seem too complex, i books by Oliver Sacks they address the same themes so well that they make these stories worth reading even under an umbrella. What are Oliver Sacks’ novels to start with?

Oliver Sacks’s destiny has always been sealed. His parents were both well-known doctors and pushed him into this career right from the start. Sacks became a renowned neurologist and worked in London and New York at several major hospitals. His novels take inspiration from studies he had also carried out on himself and from what he had carried out in his research paths. During the interviews he never failed to indicate his pathologies from a scientific perspective. His books are a small universe where you can escape from reality, but also become aware of yourself.

The thought in books by Oliver Sacks can be summed up with The theory of mind. In this topic Sacks relies on personal experience. In fact, the writer had an illness that prevented him from recognizing faces well, as well as a tumor – which will manifest itself later – in his eye and which will then be removed, thus allowing him clearer vision. This unexpected clarity leads the author to think about before sight and after. In fact, objects made sense in the mind when there was no sight and, now that there is, it is not easy to connect to each object the thought that the writer had before about it. In this Theory of mind the new objects are thus not perceived as a rebirth, but as something unnecessary, almost harmful.

From Oliver Sacks they got there beautiful books. The author began writing in 1970 and one of his books, Awakeningsit also becomes a movie In the 1990. What are the most interesting books by the neurologist who passed away in 2015? Let’s discover them together!

Oliver Sacks’ 304-page book now boasts its tenth edition. The Italian version is published by Adelphi with the translation by Clara Morena. The wise he was born in 1985 and arose from Sacks’ clinical career as a neurologist. In the book the doctor tells the stories of some patients who, due to neurological problems, have behaviors that are difficult to predict and understand. While on the one hand they may seem funny and are nice to read, on the other these stories have a grain of truth and represent well the discomfort of a person who physically suffers a problem in specific areas of the brain.

The book by Oliver Sacks it’s a collection of 7 easy to read stories, but of great impact. In fact, each story reviews the story of a patient, but taking it from the human side. The protagonists are not just a number on the chart, but people who are experiencing health difficulties and who represent them in the most unexpected ways. The title that gives inspiration for the book is a phrase that one of the patients says to the neurologist-writer to indicate how he feels.

Sacks knows he will die from cancer and decides to write four letters to his readers more fond. These letters are collected to make them a book, Gratitudepublished in Italy by Adelphi. Translated into Italy by Isabella C. Blum, the book is anything but sad, on the contrary. It is a praise to life, to the people around us and to the possibilities that it has to offer at all times.

In Musicophilia Sacks analyzes how the music is an important aid for those suffering from Tourette’s Syndrome and other important neurological pathologies. The essay starts from a situation where some people with this syndrome have a session music therapy with a drummer: their job is to go in time according to the music they listen to and to maintain the rhythm as much as possible. The session is interrupted and resumed, until total harmony is achieved between the parties, which however generates new opportunities for these patients. For Sacks it is a more technical book, but easy to read and as nice to read as the others.

Hallucinations It is one of books by Oliver Sacks more beautiful. The author experimented with some substances on himself and wrote a notebook, which was the basis for this book. The work starts from the absence of sight and how the mind tries to create the images it needs to obtain a clear form. Hallucinations fascinate medical and scientific literature, because from them we can also understand some chemical processes within the brain. The 325-page book is a fine example of how neurology also lends itself to literature.