توضیحات
Albert Einstein’s brain floats in a Tupperware bowl in a gray duffel bag in the trunk of a Buick Skylark barreling across America. Driving the car is journalist Michael Paterniti. Sitting next to him is an eighty-four-year-old pathologist named Thomas Harvey, who performed the autopsy on Einstein in 1955 — then simply removed the brain and took it home. And kept it for over forty years.
On a cold February day, the two men and the brain leave New Jersey and light out on I-70 for sunny California, where Einstein’s perplexed granddaughter, Evelyn, awaits. And riding along as the imaginary fourth passenger is Einstein himself, an id-driven genius, the original galactic slacker with his head in the stars. Part travelogue, part memoir, part history, part biography, and part meditation, Driving Mr. Albert is one of the most unique road trips in modern literature.
Amazon.com Review:
Driving Mr. Albert chronicles the adventures of an unlikely threesome–a freelance writer, an elderly pathologist, and Albert Einstein’s brain–on a cross-country expedition intended to set the story of this specimen-cum-relic straight once and for all.
After Thomas Harvey performed Einstein’s autopsy in 1955, he made off with the key body part. His claims that he was studying the specimen and would publish his findings never bore fruit, and the doctor fell from grace. The brain, though, became the subject of many an urban legend, and Harvey was transformed into a modern Robin Hood, having snatched neurological riches from the establishment and distributed them piecemeal to the curious and the faithful around the world.
The brain itself has seen better days, its chicken-colored chunks floating in a smelly, yellow, formaldehyde broth, yet its beatific presence in the book, riding serenely in the trunk of a Buick Skylark, encased in Tupperware, reflects the uncertainty of Einstein’s life. Was he a sinner or a saint, a genius or just lucky? Harvey guards the brain as if it were his own. From time to time, he has given favored specialists a slice or two to analyze, but the results have been mixed. Physiologically, Einstein’s brain may have been no different from anyone else’s, but plenty of people would like the brain to be more than it is, including Paterniti:
I want to touch the brain. Yes, I’ve admitted it. I want to hold it, coddle it, measure its weight in my palm, handle some of its fifteen billion now-dormant neurons. Does it feel like tofu, sea urchin, bologna? What, exactly? And what does such a desire make me? One of a legion of relic freaks? Or something worse?
Traversing America with Harvey and his sacred specimen, Paterniti seems to be awaiting enlightenment, much as Einstein did in his last days. But just as the great scientist failed to come up with a unifying theory, Paterniti’s chronicle dissolves at times into overly sincere efforts to find importance where there may be none, and it walks a fine line between postmodern detachment and wide-eyed wonderment. Despite this, or perhaps because of it, the book offers an engrossing portrait of postatomic America from what may be the ultimate late-20th-century road trip. –Therese Littleton
From Publishers Weekly:
Driving a Buick Skylark across the country with an addled octogenarian and an organ may not seem like the ripest material for a story, even if the organ is Albert Einstein’s brain. In the hands of a stylish writer like Paterniti, however, the journey becomes a transcendent and hilarious exploration of heady themes like obsession, love and science. In 1955, the octogenarian, a pathologist named Thomas Harvey, removed Einstein’s brain during an autopsy and, claiming he wished to study it further, took it home. In the years that followed, he sliced and shipped the brain around the world, but never relinquished most of the organ. Nor, to the criticism of colleagues, did he release his long-promised study. Forty-two years later, Harvey was finally ready to return the brain to Evelyn Einstein, Albert’s granddaughter. He enlisted Paterniti, a freelance writer living in Maine, for the task. What ensues is a rare road story that gives equal weight to journey and destination. An expansion of an article published in Harper’s magazine, this road-tale bears the classic elements of a spiritual questDthe brain a classic example of a character stand-in. But Paterniti so seamlessly weaves his stream-of-consciousness musings about everything from the theory of relativity to his own sputtering relationship with Harvey that the book becomes much more. Readers will hear echoes from American cultural historyDthe wanderlust of the Beats, the literary texture of Hemingway and the pastel-tinted surrealism of the Simpsons. It’s impossible to put this book down. Paterniti has written a work at once entertaining, psychologically rich and emotionally sophisticated feat as rare as, well, Einstein himself.
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ترجمه ماشینی :
مغز آلبرت انیشتین در یک کاسه Tupperware در یک کیسه دافل خاکستری در تنه یک بشکه Buick Skylark در سراسر آمریکا شناور است. مایکل پاترنیتی، روزنامهنگار، راننده ماشین است. در کنار او یک پاتولوژیست هشتاد و چهار ساله به نام توماس هاروی نشسته است که کالبد شکافی انیشتین را در سال 1955 انجام داد – سپس به سادگی مغز را برداشت و به خانه برد. و بیش از چهل سال آن را نگه داشت. در یک روز سرد فوریه، دو مرد و مغزشان نیوجرسی را ترک می کنند و در I-70 به سمت کالیفرنیای آفتابی می روند، جایی که نوه گیج انیشتین، اولین، منتظر است. و به عنوان چهارمین مسافر خیالی، خود اینشتین، یک نابغه مبتنی بر شناسه، سست کهکشانی اصلی با سرش در ستاره ها، همراه است. بخشی از سفرنامه، بخشی خاطرات، بخشی تاریخ، بخشی بیوگرافی و بخشی مدیتیشن، رانندگی آقای آلبرت یکی از بی نظیرترین سفرهای جاده ای در ادبیات مدرن است. \ نقد و بررسی Amazon.com: \ Driving آقای آلبرت ماجراهای یک سه نفر غیر محتمل – یک نویسنده آزاد، یک آسیب شناس مسن و مغز آلبرت انیشتین – را در سفری بین کشوری که قصد دارد داستان این نمونه را تنظیم کند را روایت می کند. -cum-relic مستقیم یک بار برای همیشه. \ پس از اینکه توماس هاروی در سال 1955 کالبد شکافی انیشتین را انجام داد، او با قسمت کلیدی بدن خود را ترک کرد. ادعاهای او مبنی بر اینکه در حال مطالعه نمونه است و یافته های خود را منتشر خواهد کرد، هرگز نتیجه نداد و دکتر از ظلم افتاد. با این حال، مغز موضوع بسیاری از افسانههای شهری شد و هاروی به یک رابین هود مدرن تبدیل شد و ثروتهای عصبی را از مؤسسه ربود و آنها را تکه تکه بین کنجکاوها و وفاداران در سراسر جهان توزیع کرد. خود مغز روزهای بهتری را دیده است، تکه های مرغ رنگش در آبگوشتی ب
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