MY BRAIN IS ON FIRE: PARIS AND OTHER OBSESSIONS

Book ID/图书代码： 12312516B88183

English Summary/英文概要： This is Leonard Pitt’s story of growing up the misfit in Detroit in the 1940s and 50s. In a later age he would have been put on Ritalin and paraded before psychiatrists because he couldn’t pay attention in school. In 1962, at the end of a misguided foray towards a career in advertising he took the ultimate cure, a trip to Paris. He thought it would only be a visit. He stayed seven years.

There in the City of Light, Leonard’s mind exploded. And it hasn’t stopped since. While building a theatre career performing and teaching, he embarked on a quest to study the origins of the ballet, the history of early American popular music, the pre-Socratic philosophers, early modern science, the European witch hunt, the history of Paris, and more. To his unschooled mind it all fits together. Who would see a historical arc between Louis XIV and Elvis Presley? Leonard does. And he’ll tell you about it.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 本书讲述了Leonard Pitt在20世纪40年代到50年代在底特律格格不入的成长故事。由于无法在学校集中注意力，他曾被迫服用利他灵，并看了许多个精神科医生。1962年，在尝试广告业失败之后，他前往巴黎踏上了一场终极疗愈之旅。当时他以为只是去哪里观光一下，却一待待了七年。

在巴黎这座城市中，Leonard的脑袋都要爆炸了，并且一直没有停下来。在从事剧院表演、教学工作的同时，他踏上了探索之旅，研究芭蕾的起源、早期美国流行音乐的历史、苏格拉底前的哲学家、早期现代科学、欧洲的猎巫运动、巴黎的历史等问题。这一切在他未受过正规教育的头脑里是那么的契合。谁能看出路易十四和毛猫王之间的历史综合征？他可以！他会在本书中告诉你一切。（LYR）

Awards/获奖情况：科克斯评论：“阅读作者的作品的乐趣不仅在于他在诸多感兴趣领域间的跳跃思维，更在于他能帮助读者看到看似毫无关系的人、事、物之间的联系，比如路易十四、猫王和呼啦圈……他的回忆录自始至终都洋溢着自主学习的欢乐氛围。”

“一段精彩纷呈的巴黎之行。”——《Pariscope》

KIRKUS REVIEWS: “What makes reading Pitt’s book so enjoyable is not only following the intellectual leaps he makes between his many and varied topics of interest. It is also seeing the creative connections among apparently unrelated subjects such as Louis XIV, Elvis Presley, and the Hula Hoop. From start to finish, Pitt’s memoir is a lively autodidactic romp through a life well-lived in both mind and body.”

Praise for Paris Postcards:
"For many years they were taken for granted, but to author and collector Leonard Pitt, vintage, hand-painted French postcards from the late 19th and early 20th centuries are nothing less than "little works of art." More than this, they also serve as historical documents. In this gorgeous collection, Pitt has chosen postcards that show readers a Paris that no longer exists. In his fascinating introduction, he discusses the birth of the postcard. The postcard, he writes, "revolutionized communication and created the first form of social networking equivalent to today’s e-mail." (But, of course, at a much slower pace.) Each postcard is accompanied by informative captions. Pitt also includes sample postcards from American visitors to Paris writing to loved ones back home. The images here are often famous (the Eiffel Tower, the Arc de Triomphe, the Moulin Rouge) and majestic (Paris’ grand boulevards), but there also are plenty of examples of ordinary Parisians going about their business. It’s an utterly charming collection that captures a moment in time." —Chicago Tribune

Praise for Paris: A Journey Through Time:
"With the minutiae of an archeologist, [Pitt] reveals the history of the City’s transformation . . . old Paris comes to life under our eyes." —Les Echos

"An astonishing voyage through Paris."— Pariscope

"This is the work of a goldsmith." Paris Capital

"This American of Paris, artist and inveterate seeker, is not made like common mortals . . . He is an archeologist, but of the eyes. He pokes around, rummages through every nook and cranny, in passageways, courtyards and hidden facades. Showing us what we no longer see because our personal and collective memories have done their job of forgetting, this is what this quirky kind of Parisian loves doing." —Detours en France

About the Author/作者介绍： Leonard Pitt，演员，作家，著有两本关于巴黎的书《穿越失落的巴黎》（Counterpoint 2006）和《巴黎明信片：黄金时代》（ounterpoint 2009），以及一部《伟大启发中的微小瞬间》（ounterpoint 2006）。

Leonard Pitt is an actor and author. He has written two books on Paris, Walks Through Lost Paris (Counterpoint 2006) and Paris Postcards: The Golden Age (Counterpoint 2009, UK rights sold to Amberley for 2016 pub), plus A Small Moment of Great Illumination (Counterpoint 2006).

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