![]() ![]() Two of the stories are about painters, and all of them are littered with references to art and fictionas well as the literature of neurology and psychology. With an eye towards Kafka, he describes the seven stories in this book as "tales ofmetamorphosis, brought about by neurological chance", "metamorphoses into alternative states of being" which are "not less human for being different". ![]() As a self-conscious mediator between artistic and scientific knowledge and popular and specialist audiences, Sacks is unashamedly happy to court such aesthetic analogies. ![]() His artful titles suggest an amalgam of Sherlock Holmes, Borges and Magritte rather than the work of a specialist neurologist. AS THE author of books called Awakenings, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and now An Anthropologist On Mars, and of case-histories with such arresting names as "The Lost Mariner", "The Case of the Colour-Blind Painter" or "The Last Hippie", Oliver Sacks might be described as "The Scientist With an Eye for a Title". ![]()
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