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- Title: Memory Degree Zero: Notes on Jose Cardoso Pires' De Profundis, Valsa Lenta.
- Author : Romance Notes
- Release Date : January 22, 2007
- Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 185 KB
Description
IN 1995 the Portuguese writer, Jose Cardoso Pires, suffered a cerebrovascular accident, or stroke, which damaged the left-hemisphere frontal lobe, affecting his capacity to understand and use language (speaking, writing and reading), as well as his capacity to recall information. 'Estrangement' is the word that might best describe the experience. In the first moments of the stroke, he was addressing his wife with the question, "como te chamas?" ('What is your name?'), followed by a complete loss of memory and aphasia (loss of speach). De Profundis, Valsa Lenta (Slow Waltz), by Jose Cardoso Pires (1997), is the dramatic testimony of his remarkable recovery from, in his own words, "morte branca" 'white death.' Most patients suffer debilitating lesions in the areas affected by a stroke, and it is known that complete recovery from this kind of brain accident is a rare occurrence. What kind of expectations, then, might one reasonably bring to such a text, a memoir that recounts a period of no memory? How does one read an empty mind?