THE FALL: MEMORIES OF A FATHER IN 424 STEPS (A QUEDA: AS MEMORIAS DE UM PAI EM 424 PASSOS)
Book ID/图书代码： 11701212B57560
English Summary/英文概要： THE FALL is an extraordinary memoir; sparse yet brimming with humanity, written in 424 short
paragraphs that explores Proust’s idea that to express a sentiment one must find its intellectual equivalent.
A cross between THE DIVING BELL AND THE BUTTERFLY and MY LEFT FOOT, it defies national boundaries and will resonate with readers across the world.
“Tito has cerebral palsy”. This sentence is the start of the beautiful and vertiginous journey of a father and his son. The novelist and journalist Diogo Mainardi describes the events that marked the birth of his first son, weaving a tapestry that mixes personal history and literature, art and ideas.
Tito was born in 2000 in the Venice hospital based in a beautiful Renaissance building near St Marks Square. His cerebral palsy was caused by an obstetrician who disastrously mishandled his birth. Against all the odds,Tito survived. His intellectual capacity was not affected but for the first five years of his life Tito could only
communicate through images, gestures, symbols, visual metaphors and analogies. His father learnt to adapt his language to communicate with his son.
From Ezra Pound to Rembrandt, Marcel Proust to Neil Young, Sigmund Freud to Humpty Dumpty, Hitler to U2, Diogo Mainardi evokes many well known figures whose paths converge in this circular narrative and connect Tito’s fate to the trajectory of the Western world. Tito’s struggle with cerebral palsy takes the reader on
a journey through Renaissance Venice, Auschwitz concentration camp, Dante Alighieri’s Purgatory, parking lots on Ipanema, and the comedies of Abbott and Costello.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 《秋日》是一部奇特的回憶錄，簡潔而充滿人性，講述了一個父親如何理解他腦癱兒子的思維和情感表達，共同與腦癱抗爭的故事。故事結合了《潛水鐘與蝴蝶》和《我的左腳》的元素，還將男孩Tito的命運和與西方世界的軌跡聯繫起來，Tito與腦癱做鬥爭的故事帶領讀者踏上了一段旅程，一路上經過文藝復興時期的威尼斯,奧斯威辛集中營,但丁煉獄,伊帕內馬停車場，和阿伯特和卡斯楚的喜劇。這一連續片段的描寫中還融合了多位讀者耳熟能詳的名人，從龐德到倫勃朗,塞爾•普魯斯特到尼爾•揚,西格蒙德•佛洛德到希特勒，還有U2組合。
“Tito患有腦癱”。這句話開啟了一對父子的美麗旅程。小說家兼記者•迪奧戈曼拉德描述了這樣一個故事,從他第一個兒子出生開始,編織了一幅融合了個人經歷、歷史、文學、藝術、和思想的故事。
男孩Tito2000年生於威尼斯醫院，這座醫院坐落於文藝復興時期的典雅建築，聖馬克廣場附近。Tito出生時，婦產科醫生的不當處理導致了一場災難，出乎所有人的意料,鐵托倖存下來，但成了腦癱兒，他的智力並不受影響，但在他人生的前五年裡，鐵托只能通過圖像、手勢、符號、視覺比喻和類比來交流。他的父親學會和兒子的表達方式，開始與兒子交流，從此父子兩踏上了抗爭腦癱的旅程。
Awards/获奖情况：“秋天是一本辉煌的人道的书”--观察周刊
“曼拉德•迪奥戈时写了一本有关父道的佳作。这是对陈旧常态的一个有力控诉,它是伟大作家的超凡智力成果 ,他的人性,他对多愁善感的拒绝,他与移情密不可分的幽默，使这简短的书成为一本佳作。“安德里亚卡诺比奥,出版社 。
“THE FALL is a magnificently humane book”. Veja
“Diogo Mainardi has written a remarkable book on fatherhood. It is a powerful indictment against the cliché of normality and it is the great intelligence of the writer, his humanity, his rejection of sentimentality, his humour inextricably linked to empathy that makes this short book a great book” Andrea Canobbio, Einaudi.
版权已卖：
Brazil: Record (2012);
UK: Harvill Secker;
Denmark: Klim;
France: Flammarion;
Germany: Hanser;
Israel: offer;
Italy: Einaudi
About the Author/作者介绍： 曼拉德•迪奥戈时写过四部小说，他与家人一起生活在威尼斯的那些年间，还曾为巴西杂志《观察周刊》撰稿。 Diogo Mainardi is the author of four novels and wrote for the Brazilian magazine Veja for many years He lives in Venice with his wife and two children.
Format:电子手稿
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