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Mind on Fire de Arnold Thomas Fanning

Mind on Fire

Autor Arnold Thomas Fanning
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 7 mar 2019

Descoperim în Mind on Fire un demers biografic rar, clădit nu doar pe memoria subiectivă, ci și pe o documentare riguroasă din surse externe: dosare medicale, rapoarte ale poliției și amintirile dureroase ale celor care l-au asistat pe autor în cele mai negre momente. Arnold Thomas Fanning nu ne oferă doar o relatare despre boală, ci o hartă precisă a prăbușirii și reconstrucției sale. Dramaturg cu o carieră în ascensiune, Fanning trece prin experiențe limită, de la pierderea mamei la episoade de manie și psihoză care l-au dus până în pragul sinuciderii și al vieții pe străzile Londrei.

Găsim în această carte o onestitate tăioasă în descrierea „regiunilor infernale” ale minții. Narativul amintește de Sharp de David Fitzpatrick prin intensitatea cu care reconstituie o epocă a suferinței și prin modul în care vulnerabilitatea extremă este transformată în literatură de înaltă clasă. Totuși, ceea ce îl diferențiază pe Fanning este perspectiva sa de dramaturg; el reușește să redea fluxul conștiinței în timpul psihozei cu o precizie aproape clinică, fără a sacrifica însă emoția pură a celui care a pierdut controlul asupra propriei realități.

Stilul este unul alert, cu un ritm care crește progresiv, oglindind accelerarea gândurilor în episoadele de manie. Nu este doar o cronică a disperării, ci și un studiu despre reziliență și despre cum arta poate deveni un ancoraj vital. Recomandăm acest volum pentru curajul cu care transformă stigmatul bolii mintale într-un testament al supraviețuirii, oferind o perspectivă intimă asupra unui subiect adesea neînțeles.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780241982853
ISBN-10: 0241982855
Pagini: 288
Dimensiuni: 128 x 200 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.21 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm Mind on Fire celor care doresc să înțeleagă realitatea trăită a tulburărilor bipolare și a psihozei, dincolo de termenii medicali. Cititorul va câștiga o perspectivă empatică și profundă asupra legăturii dintre sănătatea mintală și creativitate. Este o lectură esențială pentru oricine caută o poveste autentică despre recuperare, scrisă cu rigoarea unui documentarist și sensibilitatea unui artist care a învățat să navigheze prin haos.

Despre autor

Arnold Thomas Fanning este un dramaturg irlandez apreciat, a cărui operă a fost pusă în scenă pe platforme prestigioase precum Abbey Theatre din Dublin. Debutul său în proză cu Mind on Fire a marcat o etapă importantă în cariera sa, fiind recunoscut de critici pentru capacitatea de a transpune experiențe psihologice complexe într-un limbaj literar accesibil și tulburător. După o luptă lungă cu depresia și mania, Fanning a devenit o voce importantă în dialogul despre sănătatea mintală, reușind să mențină o perioadă de stabilitate de peste un deceniu, timp în care s-a dedicat scrisului și teatrului.

Notă biografică

Arnold Thomas Fanning was born in London and raised in Dublin. His stage plays include the acclaimed McKenna's Fort. Mind on Fire is his first book.

Recenzii

Mind on Fire is a truly powerful, arresting, haunting account. Arnold Thomas Fanning has reckoned with the darkest matter of his heart and mind, and I challenge anyone not to be moved by that.
[A] painfully intense, courageous and gripping account of [Fanning's] journey to the underworld of madness and back. This is a brave and instructive book.
In this strange and singular book, Arnold Thomas Fanning mercilessly excavates the infernal underworld of his own years of madness. As reminiscent as it occasionally is of John Healy's The Grass Arena, and even of Orwell's Down and Out in Paris and London, the book is ultimately not quite like anything else I've read, and brought me as close to the lived reality of mental illness as I have ever been. It's a significant achievement: a painful, inexorable work of autobiography, whose existence is its own form of redemption.
This is an extraordinary memoir about how it feels to be depressed, delusional, desperate
Extraordinary. An account of mental illness, grief, delusions, homelessness, a fractured family relationship ... and all while trying to recover and create. Superb writing on a frequently difficult subject.
Arnold Thomas Fanning offers the most vivid and unflinching window into the mind of someone who is in the throes of madness ... It was like nothing I'd read before
Incredibly important
A spellbinding memoir that should prove both moving and hopefully cathartic for the reader
Told in tight and immediate first-person, and imbued with a startling momentum that ratchets unnervingly, Fanning's publishing debut ... is a significant achievement and should be a talking point in publishing this year
Fanning's debut book lays it on the line in a deeply personal and compelling chronicle of his descent into depression and his way back out.
Unsparingly direct, searing and honest ... It is gripping to read and must have been exhausting to live
One of the most gripping and revealing memoirs I've read in a long time. A controlled and artful exploration of absolute loss of control, an unsettling and at times very moving reconstruction of a period of serious mental illness, Mind on Fire is a beautiful book about a terrifying thing.
A ratcheting pace, a tight first-person immediacy, and utterly staggering to be a passenger over its entire warped course ... An indelible, ground-shaking account
Poignant, beautifully detailed memoir
Brave and illuminating

Descriere scurtă

Shortlisted for the Wellcome Book Prize 2019

'[A] painfully intense, courageous and gripping account of [Fanning's] journey to the underworld of madness and back. This is a brave and instructive book.' Irish Times
'Extraordinary. An account of mental illness, grief, delusions, homelessness, a fractured family relationship ... and all while trying to recover and create. Superb writing on a frequently difficult subject.' Sinéad Gleeson

Arnold Thomas Fanning had his first experience of depression during adolescence, following the death of his mother. Some ten years later, an up-and-coming playwright, he was overcome by mania and delusions. Thus began a terrible period in which he was often suicidal, increasingly disconnected from family and friends, sometimes in trouble with the law, and homeless in London.
Drawing on his own memories, the recollections of people who knew him when he was at his worst, and medical and police records, Arnold Thomas Fanning has produced a beautifully written, devastatingly intense account of madness - and recovery, to the point where he has not had any serious illness for over a decade and has become an acclaimed playwright. Fanning conveys the consciousness of a person living with mania, psychosis and severe depression with a startling precision and intimacy. Mind on Fire is the gripping, sometimes harrowing, and ultimately uplifting testament of a person who has visited hellish regions of the mind.

'Arnold Thomas Fanning offers the most vivid and unflinching window into the mind of someone who is in the throes of madness ... It was like nothing I'd read before' Rick Edwards
'Mind on Fire is a truly powerful, arresting, haunting account. Arnold Thomas Fanning has reckoned with the darkest matter of his heart and mind, and I challenge anyone not to be moved by that.' Sara Baume, author of Spill Simmer Falter Wither and A Line Made by Walking
'In this strange and singular book, Arnold Thomas Fanning mercilessly excavates the infernal underworld of his own years of madness. As reminiscent as it occasionally is of John Healy's The Grass Arena, and even of Orwell's Down and Out in Paris and London, the book is ultimately not quite like anything else I've read, and brought me as close to the lived reality of mental illness as I have ever been. It's a significant achievement: a painful, inexorable work of autobiography, whose existence is its own form of redemption.' Mark O'Connell, Baillie Gifford Prize-shortlisted author of To Be a Machine

'This is an extraordinary memoir about how it feels to be depressed, delusional, desperate' The Observer
'Incredibly important' Emilie Pine, author of Notes to Self
'A ratcheting pace, a tight first-person immediacy, and utterly staggering to be a passenger over its entire warped course ... An indelible, ground-shaking account' Hilary A White, Irish Independent, Memoir of the Year, Best Reads of 2018
'A spellbinding memoir that should prove both moving and hopefully cathartic for the reader.' RTE Culture

'Told in tight and immediate first-person, and imbued with a startling momentum that ratchets unnervingly, Fanning's publishing debut ... is a significant achievement and should be a talking point in publishing this year.' Irish Independent
'Fanning's debut book lays it on the line in a deeply personal and compelling chronicle of his descent into depression and his way back out.' RTE Guide
'Wonderful' Joseph O'Connor, Irish Times Books of the Year

'Unsparingly direct, searing and honest ... It is gripping to read and must have been exhausting to live' Medical Independent

'One of the most gripping and revealing memoirs I've read in a long time. A controlled and artful exploration of absolute loss of control, an unsettling and at times very moving reconstruction of a period of serious mental illness, Mind on Fire is a beautiful book about a terrifying thing.' Mark O'Connell, Irish Times Books of the Year
'Gripping' Sinéad Gleeson, Irish Times Books of the Year
'Shocking' Liz Nugent, Irish Times Books of the Year
'Poignant, beautifully detailed memoir' Sarah Gilmartin, Irish Times, Best debuts of 2018
'Brave and illuminating' Sunday Business Post
'This is the type of account that not only grips you wholesale as the pages flitter past, it also changes your very perception of psychology' Hilary A White, Sunday Independent Memoir of the Year