El cerebro de mi hermano es un relato de la evolucin de un padecimiento degenerativo en el seno de una familia. Recuerdos, emociones, temores y expectativas, el singular proceso de adaptacin a lo impensable, el dolor de atestiguar la extincin de un ser querido, pero tambin la historia compartida, los aos, los lugares, las pasiones conjuntas, la apertura a la conciencia del propio final, el ajuste de cuentas inexorable con lo vivido...
Rafael Prez Gay ha escrito con El cerebro de mi hermano una de sus memorias personales ms intensas, un informe final sobre los ltimos momentos de Jos Mara Prez Gay (1943-2013): filsofo, escritor, traductor y diplomtico; hermano mayor y amigo literario.
Una reflexin descarnada y precisa sobre la condicin humana, la enfermedad y la muerte.
The last stronghold of memory and dreams: the brain, where everything happens, but also where everything can stop when it becomes a dark house inhabited by nothing, no one, never.
El cerebro de mi hermano is a story of the evolution of a degenerative disease within a family. Memories, emotions, fears and expectations, the unique process of adapting to the unthinkable, the pain of witnessing the extinction of a loved one, but also the shared history, the years, the places, the joint passions, the openness to the awareness of one's own end, the inexorable settling of accounts with what has been lived...
Rafael Prez Gay has written one of his most intense personal memoirs with El cerebro de mi hermano, a final report on the last moments of Jos Mara Prez Gay (1943-2013): philosopher, writer, translator and diplomat; older brother and literary friend.
A stark and precise reflection on the human condition, illness and death.