On the Move: a Life by Oliver Sacks
Oliver Sacks is a very famous author in the field of neuroscience, but this is the first time I have properly read a book written by him. It’s his autobiography, and I quite enjoyed reading it. After reading it, I felt like he was an excellent storyteller and writer before he was a neurologist. He is a free-spirited and curious person who enjoys motorcycle travel, writing letters, and writing diaries. He interestingly depicts his secret sexual life and romance, his experience with drugs, his feelings toward those around him, and his pure intellectual curiosity about the human mind in his autobiography. It seems that he has an innate talent for closely observing and recording the patients in his care as a neurology clinician, developing his thoughts, and weaving them into humanistic stories that go beyond the field of medicine. After reading this book, I wanted to read his other essays that I had bought at home but had not read. In the current Korean atmosphere, experts might diagnose h...