by Santiago Ramón y Cajal · ESPASA · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788423974665
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Dive into the lesser-known side of Santiago Ramón y Cajal with 'Holiday Tales'. This collection of five science fiction stories, described by the author as pseudoscientific narratives, merges realism based on facts and rational hypotheses with the complexities of human personality, the nuances of good and evil, and the mysteries of the subconscious. Through characters who are not symbols, but individuals of flesh and blood, Cajal explores human passions, defects, and limitations with a poetic sense and a moralizing intention typical of early 20th century writers.
Santiago Ramón y Cajal was a Spanish neuroscientist, pathologist, and histologist specialising in neuroanatomy, and the central nervous system. He and Camillo Golgi received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1906. Ramón y Cajal was the first Spaniard to win a scientific Nobel Prize. His original investigations of the microscopic structure of the brain made him a pioneer of modern neuroscience.
