商品簡介
"Horiot offers not only a literary and startling testimony of autism, but also a striking portrayal of the human condition. Hugo Horiot was an angry autistic child with Asperger syndrome who refused to speak for the first years of his life and only escaped institutionalization because his mother decided, controversially, to educate and care for him herself. Today, the storm of autism has passed and Hugo has become a peaceful and highly functioning adult. In this book, he now returns to his childhood, to his experiences--his tantrums, obsessions, furies, and --to give a voice to a child who had cut himself off from the world. This is a true story, a literary and startling testimony of autism and of the human condition: the self-portrait of a furious child waging a war, against himself, against those around him. "--
作者簡介
HUGO HORIOT is a young French actor, director, and writer. In 2005, he was admitted in the Theatre du Jour, a French theater academy, where he studied the art of acting with Pierre Debauche. The Emperor, C'est Moi, the narrative of his autism and coming out of it, is his first book. It won him the Prix "Paroles de patients," a French award that recognizes writers writing about disease and healing from it. In 1991, his mother, Francoise Lefevre, published a book titled Le petit prince cannibale, about his autistic childhood and the way she helped him to grow up. It won her the Prix "Goncourt des lyceens". "I am not cured of Autism," said Horiot, "I have learned to live with it. He lives in Paris. This text was adapted for the stage, with Horiot playing his own character.
Translator LINDA COVERDALE has a Ph.D. in French Studies from the Johns Hopkins University and has translated more than seventy books. A Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, she has won the 2004 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, the 2006 Scott Moncrieff Prize, and the 1997 and 2008 French-American Foundation Translation Prize. She lives in Brooklyn.
