by Christy Brown · Diogenes Verlag · tapa blanda · ISBN 9783257227680
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«Mein linker Fuß» is the autobiography of Christy Brown, published by Diogenes Verlag in paperback (190 pages, in German).
Christy Brown was born with almost total paralysis. Thanks to his mother, who stood up to doctors and authorities, he was not confined to an institution. Over time he learned to paint and write with his left foot; this work recounts his life in a large working-class family in Dublin with exuberant humour.
Number 22768 in the Diogenes Taschenbuch series. Translated from the English by Leonharda Gescher. The original work, «My Left Foot», was published in 1954.
For readers of memoirs and biographies, interested in stories of personal triumph and Irish literature.
Christy Brown was an Irish writer and painter. He had cerebral palsy, and this allowed him to write or type only with the toes of one foot. His most recognized work is his autobiography, titled My Left Foot (1954). It was later made into a 1989 Academy Award-winning film of the same name, starring Daniel Day-Lewis as Brown.
