ملخص:يعيش جاك ريبيير، البالغ من العمر ستة عشر عامًا، حياة متواضعة في ريف فرنسا، حيث يدرس الفراشات والضفادع على ضوء الشموع في غرفة نومه. عبر القناة، في إنجلترا، يستمتع توماس ميدوينتر، البالغ من العمر ستة عشر عامًا أيضًا، بحياة مريحة ويستسلم لاتباع رغبات والده وممارسة مهنة الطب. لقاء مصيري على شاطئ البحر بعد أربع سنوات يضع الشابين على مسار عميق من الصداقة والاكتشاف؛ سيصبحون روادًا في مجال الطب النفسي المزدهر. ولكن عندما تصبح مريضة في مصحة الأطباء النمساوية مريضة بشكل خطير، فإن التشخيص المتضارب للرجلين يهدد بتقسيمهما - وتقويض جميع إنجازاتهما المهنية. من مؤلف كتاب Birdsong الأكثر مبيعًا، تأتي هذه الرواية الرائعة التي تغامر بالإجابة على الأسئلة الصعبة المتعلقة بالوعي والعلم، وما يعنيه أن تكون إنسانًا.

Human Traces (Vintage International)

Human traces : a novel

Faulks, Sebastian

Sebastian Faulks

Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc

Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers

Random House, Incorporated

Random House AudioBooks

Vintage International

First Vintage International Edition, New York

United States, United States of America

March 11, 2008

New York, 2006

Reprint, 2008

<p>What is it to be human? This question, as in <b>Birdsong</b>, is at the heart of <b>Human Traces</b>.<br><br>The story begins in Brittany where a young, poor boy somehow passes his medical exams and goes to Paris, where he attends the lectures of Charcot, the Parisian neurologist who set the world on its head in the 1870s. With a friend, he sets up a clinic in the mysterious mountain district of Carinthia in south-east Austria.<br><br>If <b>The Girl at the Lion d&#8217;Or</b> was a simple three-movement symphony, <b>Birdsong</b> an opera, <b>Charlotte Gray</b> a complex four-movement symphony and <b>On Green Dolphin Street </b>a concerto, then <b>Human Traces</b> is a Wagnerian grand opera.<br><br><br><i>From the Hardcover edition.</i></p><h3>The Washington Post - Peter D. Kramer</h3><p>Faulks understands the difficulties inherent in using fiction to convey these complex arguments. He offsets his characters' earnestness&#151;and his own&#151;through attention to settings and plot details. He sends his protagonists to California and Tanzania to fill in pieces of the puzzle. He allows Rebiere to indulge in titillating sexual obsessions. Generally, the effort to entertain succeeds. And <i>Human Traces</i> can be moving, as its characters grapple with the limitations of knowledge and reason. Despite its shortcomings, the book should serve as a popular vehicle for reassessing the history of psychiatry and confronting the mystery of consciousness.</p>

Sixteen-year-old Jacques Rebiere is living a humble life in rural France, studying butterflies and frogs by candlelight in his bedroom. Across the Channel, in England, the playful Thomas Midwinter, also sixteen, is enjoying a life of ease-and is resigned to follow his father's wishes and pursue a career in medicine. A fateful seaside meeting four years later sets the two young men on a profound course of friendship and discovery; they will become pioneers in the burgeoning field of psychiatry. But when a female patient at the doctors' Austrian sanatorium becomes dangerously ill, the two men's conflicting diagnosis threatens to divide them--and to undermine all their professional achievements. From the bestselling author of Birdsong comes this masterful novel that ventures to answer challenging questions of consciousness and science, and what it means to be human.From the Trade Paperback edition.

As young boys both Jacques Rebiere and Thomas Midwinter become fascinated with trying to understand the human mind. As psychiatrists, their quest takes them from the squalor of the Victorian lunatic asylum to the crowded lecture halls of the renowned Professor Charcot in Paris; from the heights of the Sierra Madre in California to the plains of unexplored Africa. As the concerns of the old century fade and the First World War divides Europe, the two men's volatile relationship develops and changes, but is always tempered by one exceptional woman; Thomas's sister Sonia. Moving and challenging in equal measure, HUMAN TRACES explores the question of what kind of beings men and women really are

In 1880, Jacque Rebi?ere and Thomas Midwinter, two twenty-year-olds determined to understand the workings of the mind--Jacque in hopes of helping his mentally ill brother--meet and begin a friendship and professional partnership that becomes threatened by their opposing theories about the nature of mental illness, a difference of opinion that comes to a head with the case of a mysteriously ill female patient

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