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Young Adult Fiction.
Charlie Gordon knows that he isn't very bright. At 32, he mops floors in a bakery and earns just enough to get by. Three evenings a week, he studies at a center for retarded adults. But all of this is about to change for Charlie. As part of a daring experiment, doctors are going to perform surgery on Charlie's brain. They hope the operation and special medication will increase his intelligence, just as it has for the laboratory mouse, Algernon. Meanwhile, each day Charlie keeps a diary of what is happening to him. This is his poignant record of the startling changes in his mind and his life. Flowers for Algernon was first published as a short story, but soon received wide acclaim as it appeared in anthologies, as a television special, and as an award-winning motion picture, Charly. In its final, expanded form, this haunting story won the Nebula Award for the Best Novel of the Year. Through Jeff Woodman's narration, now it becomes an unforgettable audio experience.… (mehr)
aulsmith: Same theme of experimental intelligence enhancement. Disch's experimenters are much more sinister, and his experimental subjects much more intelligent.
aulsmith: A short story by Maureen McHugh about an experimental treatment for Alzheimer's that looks at the effect of loss and gain of mental functioning from a bystander's point-of-view.
Das Buch wurde in einem Podcast empfohlen und als Klassiker der Science Fiktion gepriesen. Ich war sehr erstaunt, hatte ich doch noch nie von dem Buch gehört. Den Inhalt bilden die fiktiven Tagebucheinträge eines geistig Behinderten, der durch eine nicht näher beschriebene Operation in wenigen Wochen intelligenter als alle anderen Menschen wird und dann ebenso schnell wieder seine Intelligenz verliert. Auch wenn die Entwicklung einer stetig steigenden Intelligenz reine Spekulation ist, da es so einen Fall in der Wirklichkeit nicht gibt, fand ich die Beschreibung faszinierend. Vor allem wie der Protagonist sich seiner selbst immer mehr bewusst wurde und seine Erinnerung wuchs und er auch sein gewonnenes Wissen in Zusammenhängen sehen konnte. Er war immer mehr in der Lage Geschehnisse zu interpretieren. Ich habe das Buch mit dem Gefühl beendet, dass die Person am glücklichsten schien, nachdem er wieder bei einem äußerst geringen IQ angekommen war. Vielleicht auch nur, weil er nicht mehr in der Lage war, die Welt differenziert zu betrachten. ( )
[Keyes] has taken the obvious, treated it in a most obvious fashion, and succeeded in creating a tale that is suspenseful and touching - all in modest degree, but it is enough.
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Anyone who has common sense will remember that the bewilderments of the eyes are of two kinds, and arise from two causes, either from coming out of the light or from going into the light, which is true of the mind's eye, quite as much as of the bodily eye; and he who remembers this when he sees anyone whose vision is perplexed and weak, will not be to (sic) ready to laugh; he will first ask whether that soul of man has come out of the brighter life, and is unable to see because unaccustomed to the dark, or having turned from darkness to the day is dazzled by excess of light. And he will count the one happy in his condition and state of being, and he will pity the other; or, if he have a mind to laugh at the soul which comes from below into the light, there will be more reason in this than in the laugh which greets him who returns from above out of the light into the den. Plato, The Republic
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For my mother And in memory of my father
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Dr Strauss says I shoud rite down what I think and remembir and evrey thing that happins to me from now on.
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P.S. please if you get a chanse put some flowrs on Algernons grave in the bak yard.
Young Adult Fiction.
Charlie Gordon knows that he isn't very bright. At 32, he mops floors in a bakery and earns just enough to get by. Three evenings a week, he studies at a center for retarded adults. But all of this is about to change for Charlie. As part of a daring experiment, doctors are going to perform surgery on Charlie's brain. They hope the operation and special medication will increase his intelligence, just as it has for the laboratory mouse, Algernon. Meanwhile, each day Charlie keeps a diary of what is happening to him. This is his poignant record of the startling changes in his mind and his life. Flowers for Algernon was first published as a short story, but soon received wide acclaim as it appeared in anthologies, as a television special, and as an award-winning motion picture, Charly. In its final, expanded form, this haunting story won the Nebula Award for the Best Novel of the Year. Through Jeff Woodman's narration, now it becomes an unforgettable audio experience.
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