When I was taking the neurology course in the UPCH, Dr. Cabrera mentioned a book called The man who mistook his wife for a hat. I remember that day because of my interest of the connection between Medicine and Art. So I was looking for the book many months in Lima. I found it in the library of the Asociacion Cultural Peruano Britanica. It's an amazing book and I wanted to know more about Oliver Sacks, the author and realized that he wrote a very famous book called Awakenings. This book inspired a play with the same name Awakenings starring Robert De Niro and Robin Williams. On June 2006 Oliver Sacks was invited to a meeting in Lima by the Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru. I knew about his presence in Peru reading the Moleskine Literario. I couldn't go to listen him because I was out of Peru.
Today I was looking for information about Michael Nyman (composer of The Piano movie) and I found he wrote an opera based in the book The man who mistook his wife for a hat. So, now I'm looking for the videos or audios of this opera on the Internet.
Here there is an interview to Oliver Sacks
Sunday, January 04, 2009
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