Tatu Laurent
Departments of Neuromuscular Diseases and Anatomy, CHU Jean-Minjoz, University of Franche-Comté, Besançon, France.
Front Neurol Neurosci. 2010;27:143-159. doi: 10.1159/000311198. Epub 2010 Apr 6.
The life and works of Blaise Cendrars (1887-1961), one of the greatest French literary authors of the 20th century, were profoundly influenced by neurology. Having been wounded in the Great War in 1915, his right forearm was amputated, and he very quickly began to suffer from stump pain and phantom hand phenomena, which persisted until his death. Following his amputation he became a left-handed writer. Half a century later, between 1956 and his death in 1961, he suffered two strokes which gradually paralyzed the left side of his body. After the second stroke in 1958, he became a 'handless writer', also partially losing his ability to express himself orally. Although the works of Blaise Cendrars portray characters with serious mental disorders, they also contain characters with real neurological diseases, such as the trepanated aphasic in 'J'ai Saigné'. The most famous of these is undoubtedly Moravagine, the protagonist of the eponymous novel, who presents acute behavioral disturbances. We learn from the autopsy report that he was in fact suffering from a brain tumor. On several occasions, including the complex case of Moravagine, and by presenting his ideas on hysteria, Blaise Cendrars, in his own way, addressed the somewhat fuzzy boundary that exists between psychiatry and neurology.
布莱兹·桑德拉尔（1887 - 1961）是20世纪最伟大的法国文学作家之一，他的生活和作品深受神经学影响。1915年他在第一次世界大战中受伤，右臂被截肢，很快便开始遭受残肢痛和幻手现象的折磨，这种情况一直持续到他去世。截肢后他成为了一名左撇子作家。半个世纪后，在1956年至1961年去世期间，他遭受了两次中风，身体左侧逐渐瘫痪。1958年第二次中风后，他成了一名“无手作家”，口头表达能力也部分丧失。尽管布莱兹·桑德拉尔的作品塑造了患有严重精神障碍的人物形象，但其中也包含患有真实神经疾病的人物，比如《我曾流血》中接受过环锯术的失语症患者。其中最著名的无疑是同名小说的主人公莫拉瓦金，他表现出急性行为障碍。我们从尸检报告中得知，他实际上患有脑瘤。布莱兹·桑德拉尔多次通过一些案例，包括复杂的莫拉瓦金案例，并阐述他对癔症的观点，以自己的方式探讨了精神病学和神经学之间存在的有些模糊的界限。
