An Ideal Presence
2017
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160
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In 2015, the Argentinian novelist Eduardo Berti spent several weeks in a “medico-literary” residency at the University Hospital Centre in Rouen, France, observing and conversing with the staff and volunteers of its palliative care department. From that experience he created this series of lightly fictionalized testimonials from nurses, nursing aides, doctors, administrators, porters, volunteer musicians, and the other people who make the unit tick. The result is a distinctly intimate and often poignant portrait of sickness and care, and unflinching look at death through the eyes of the people who work with it every day—but also a profound reflection on what it means to be alive.
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Author
Eduardo Berti
Author · 8 books
Eduardo Berti (Buenos Aires; 1964); escritor y periodista argentino, hijo de un padre rumano emigrado a Argentina durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial.
