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Chargement... Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives (Vintage) (original 2009; édition 2010)par David Eagleman
Information sur l'oeuvreSum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives par David Eagleman (2009)
   Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre.  mazel | Oct 12, 2009 | 
 Eagleman will find Sum a hard act to follow. This delightful, thought-provoking little collection belongs to that category of strange, unclassifiable books that will haunt the reader long after the last page has been turned. This stunningly original book is little more than a 100 pages long. You can get through it in an hour, but you'd be mad to hurry, and you will certainly want to return to it many times. The "sum" of the title is from Descartes's "Cogito ergo sum". Its subject, as vast as the book is small, is what happens when the "Am" becomes "Amn't", the zero-sum game called death. In 40 luminous parables, David Eagleman offers meticulously itemised, plausibly fantastic scenarios of what the afterlife may comprise. The best stories in Sum remind us that it is natural to want to know our place in the scheme of things. The book is a scripture of sorts, but because each myth contradicts the last, it is not a dogmatic collection.  Yet while Mr. Eagleman squeezes from his tales a trite message about life, his many passing observations -- especially those concerning time and space -- convey sharp insights about how we think about death. Prix et récompenses
At once funny, wistful and unsettling, Sum is a dazzling exploration of unexpected afterlives--each presented as a vignette that offers a stunning lens through which to see ourselves in the here and now. In one afterlife, you may find that God is the size of a microbe and unaware of your existence. In another version, you work as a background character in other people's dreams. Or you may find that God is a married couple, or that the universe is running backward, or that you are forced to live out your afterlife with annoying versions of who you could have been. With a probing imagination and deep understanding of the human condition, acclaimed neuroscientist David Eagleman offers wonderfully imagined tales that shine a brilliant light on the here and now. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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il va donc rester sur ma table de chevet pour une lecture meilleure... un jour = une chronique, et pas plus... de façon à le savourer lentement et faire durer le plaisir. (