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Schwarcz, Luiz.
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Schwarcz, Luiz -- Mental health.
Schwarcz, Luiz -- Family.
Schwarcz, Luiz -- Childhood and youth.
People with bipolar disorder -- Brazil -- Biography.
Depressed persons -- Brazil -- Biography.
Manic-depressive illness.
Depression, Mental.
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Schwarcz, Luiz.
Schwarcz, Luiz -- Mental health.
Schwarcz, Luiz -- Family.
Schwarcz, Luiz -- Childhood and youth.
People with bipolar disorder -- Brazil -- Biography.
Depressed persons -- Brazil -- Biography.
Manic-depressive illness.
Depression, Mental.
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The absent moon : a memoir of a short childhood and a long depression /
Luiz
Schwarcz
; translated by Eric M.B. Becker.
by
Schwarcz
,
Luiz
.
Penguin Press, 2023.
Call #:
616.85270092 S399a
Subjects
Schwarcz
,
Luiz
--
Mental
health
.
Schwarcz
,
Luiz
--
Family.
Schwarcz
,
Luiz
--
Childhood and youth.
People with bipolar disorder
--
Brazil
--
Biography.
Depressed persons
--
Brazil
--
Biography.
Manic-depressive illness.
Depression,
Mental
.
ISBN:
9780593490723 (hc)
Uniform title:
Ar que me falta. English
Description:
xii, 226 p. ; 19 cm.
Notes:
"Originally published in Portuguese as O ar que me falta by Companhia das Letras, Sāo Paulo."--T.p. verso.
Translated from the Portuguese.
Summary:
"A literary sensation in Brazil and now a global publishing event,
Luiz
Schwarcz
's wise and tender memoir bravely interrogates the story of his own ordeal of depression in the context of a family story of murder, dispossession, and silence
--
the long echo of the Holocaust across generations When
Luiz
Schwarcz
was a child, he was told little about his grandfather and namesake Láios
--
'
Luiz
' in Hungarian. Only later would he learn that his grandfather, a devout Hungarian Jew, had defied his country's Nazi occupiers by holding secret religious services in his home and, after being put on a train to a German death camp with his son André, had ordered André to leap from the train to freedom at a rail crossing while Láios himself was carried on to his death. What
Luiz
did know was that his father was a very unhappy man, and his melancholia haunted the house. The noise that defined childhood for
Luiz
was that of his father in the next bedroom, tortured by insomnia, striking his foot against the bed post, seemingly for hours, night after night. Young
Luiz
assumed responsibility for his parents' happiness, as many children of trauma do, and for a time he seemed to be succeeding: he blossomed into the family prodigy, becoming an outwardly gregarious, athletic, and academically successful young man, eventually growing into a literary publisher of great promise. His house was still filled with silence, but he found a home in that silence
--
a home that he filled with books and with reading. But then, at a high point of outward success,
Luiz
was brought low by a devastating
mental
breakdown against which his resources were pitifully inadequate. The Absent Moon is in part the story of his journey to that point and in part his journey back from it, as
Luiz
learned to forge a different, more honest relationship with his own mind, with his family, and with their shared past. The culmination of that path is this extraordinary book, which is beautiful, tragic, noble, piercingly honest, and ultimately redemptive
--
the product of a lifetime's reflection, animated by love and compassion and given powerful literary shape in the refiner's fire by a master storyteller"--Publisher.
Genre:
Autobiographies.
Memoirs.
Other authors:
Becker, Eric M. B.
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