A. R. Luria was Professor of Psychology at Lomonosov Moscow State University.

Zasetsky…in eloquent excerpts from a diary, comments on his struggle to recover the use of his brain… He could not even have written his journal—3,000 pages that he cannot read himself, composed with appalling effort over a quarter of a century—had he not learned to write automatically, without thinking of the process. It is a remarkable document, affecting in its simplicity, its pain, its inexorable determination.

A. R. Luria was Professor of Psychology at Lomonosov Moscow State University.

Zasetsky…in eloquent excerpts from a diary, comments on his struggle to recover the use of his brain… He could not even have written his journal—3,000 pages that he cannot read himself, composed with appalling effort over a quarter of a century—had he not learned to write automatically, without thinking of the process. It is a remarkable document, affecting in its simplicity, its pain, its inexorable determination.