Matthew's Enigma: A Father's Portrait of His Autistic Son - Couverture souple

Calinescu, Matei

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0253220661 ISBN 13 : 9780253220660

Editeur : Indiana University Press, 2009

Synopsis

Matthew's Enigma unfolds the complex relationship between a father, who is a Romanian emigré and distinguished university professor, and his son, who was diagnosed with autism when he was 7 years old. Matei Calinescu's desire to understand Matthew―his namesake―is the theme of this moving memoir. Calinescu's determined search for the meaning of his son's enigmatic illness continues even after Matthew's sudden death at age 25. Reminiscences about Matthew's life are interwoven with observations of his behavior and reflections on the difficulties that autistic persons encounter in social situations. Drawing from journals that he kept, beginning with Matthew's birth, as well as from his experience as a scholar of literature and philosophy and a reader of psychologists' and brain scientists' writings about autism, Calinescu has composed an inspiring and lyrical essay about love and illness, memory and forgetfulness, sociability and alienation.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Matei Calinescu is Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature at Indiana University Bloomington. His books include Five Faces of Modernity: Modernism, Avant-Garde, Decadence, Kitsch, Postmodernism and Rereading. He lives in Bloomington, Indiana.

Angela Jianu has translated The Hooligan's Return by Norman Manea from Romanian.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Indiana University Press
• Date d'édition: 2009
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0253220661
• ISBN 13: 9780253220660
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 224
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