![]() Seize ans plus tard il est transposé au cinéma dans un film réalisé par Penny Marshall en 1990, l'Éveil, et interprété par Robin Williams et Robert De Niro dans les rôles principaux. ![]() Awakenings (en français l'Éveil), est un livre de non-fiction écrit par Oliver Sacks et publié en 1973.In 1974 the book won the Hawthornden Prize. Auden, and bears an extract from Auden's 1969 poem The Art of Healing: 'Healing',Papa would tell me,'is not a science,but the intuitive artof wooing Nature.' Prior to his death in 1973, Auden wrote, "Have read the book and think it a masterpiece". The 1976 edition of the book is dedicated to the memory of Sacks' close friend, poet W. ![]() Such patients have undergone an enduring awakening, and enjoy possibilities of life which had been impossible, unthinkable, before the coming of L-DOPA. In 1982, Sacks wrote: I have become much more optimistic than I was when I wrote Awakenings, for there has been a significant number of patients who, following the vicissitudes of their first years on L-DOPA, came to do – and still do – extremely well. Sacks chronicles his efforts in the late 1960s to help these patients at the Beth Abraham Hospital (now Beth Abraham Center for Rehabilitation and Nursing) in the Bronx, New York. It recounts the life histories of those who had been victims of the 1920s encephalitis lethargica epidemic. ![]() Awakenings is a 1973 non-fiction book by Oliver Sacks. ![]()
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