Hugo Horiot is in love with wheels and all that cranks or turns. He is obsessed with the otherworldly language of pipes—they run, he imagines, from his family home to the center of the earth. He causes endless trouble at home and hates school. He muses: “I dream asleep, I dream awake”—but he dreams so hard he shuts out the world with reveries that are not just curious but dangerous and painful too. School is a prison he must escape, his teachers oppressors, and his classmates “a band of jolly torturers.” This is the portrait of a boy who might happen to suffer from autism, but who is also a beautiful rebel inspired to blaze his own path through childhood to find an enduring sense of personal freedom.
Hugo Horiot is in love with wheels and all that cranks or turns. He is obsessed with the otherworldly language of pipes—they run, he imagines, from his family home to the center of the earth. He causes endless trouble at home and hates school. He muses: “I dream asleep, I dream awake”—but he dreams so hard he shuts out the world with reveries that are not just curious but dangerous and painful too. School is a prison he must escape, his teachers oppressors, and his classmates “a band of jolly torturers.” This is the portrait of a boy who might happen to suffer from autism, but who is also a beautiful rebel inspired to blaze his own path through childhood to find an enduring sense of personal freedom.From the Hardcover edition.
Autista, afectado por el síndrome de Asperger, Hugo Horiot da testimonio de sus vivencias, de su diferencia, de sus dificultades para expresarse, de su deseo de cambiar, hasta querer ser otro, y cambiar de nombre.Este libro es una historia verdadera. El autorretrato de un niño encolerizado, que libra una guerra sin piedad contra sí mismo y contra los demás. Un niño autista Asperger.Hoy, la fractura del autismo ha pasado. El guerrero de los brazos desnudos se ha convertido en un adulto sereno. Y, entonces, decide zambullirse de nuevo en la infancia. Nos arrastra con él, capítulo tras capítulo. Tiene cuatro años, ocho años, doce años. Tiene miedo. Se golpea contra el absurdo de una vida como una mariposa contra una lámpara.Es claro, justo, extraño, cruel a veces. Se ahogan las lágrimas y la ternura brota como el relámpago.Un texto fascinante en la línea de los grandes relatos sobre el autismo. Y sobre la condición humana.
Hugo Horiot is in love with wheels and all that cranks or turns. He is obsessed with the otherworldly language of pipes—they run, he imagines, from his family home to the center of the earth. He causes endless trouble at home and hates school. He muses: “I dream asleep, I dream awake”—but he dreams so hard he shuts out the world with reveries that are not just curious but dangerous and painful too. School is a prison he must escape, his teachers oppressors, and his classmates “a band of jolly torturers.” This is the portrait of a boy who might happen to suffer from autism, but who is also a beautiful rebel inspired to blaze his own path through childhood to find an enduring sense of personal freedom.
Hugo Horiot is in love with wheels and all that cranks or turns. He is obsessed with the otherworldly language of pipes—they run, he imagines, from his family home to the center of the earth. He causes endless trouble at home and hates school. He muses: “I dream asleep, I dream awake”—but he dreams so hard he shuts out the world with reveries that are not just curious but dangerous and painful too. School is a prison he must escape, his teachers oppressors, and his classmates “a band of jolly torturers.” This is the portrait of a boy who might happen to suffer from autism, but who is also a beautiful rebel inspired to blaze his own path through childhood to find an enduring sense of personal freedom.From the Hardcover edition.
Autista, afectado por el síndrome de Asperger, Hugo Horiot da testimonio de sus vivencias, de su diferencia, de sus dificultades para expresarse, de su deseo de cambiar, hasta querer ser otro, y cambiar de nombre.Este libro es una historia verdadera. El autorretrato de un niño encolerizado, que libra una guerra sin piedad contra sí mismo y contra los demás. Un niño autista Asperger.Hoy, la fractura del autismo ha pasado. El guerrero de los brazos desnudos se ha convertido en un adulto sereno. Y, entonces, decide zambullirse de nuevo en la infancia. Nos arrastra con él, capítulo tras capítulo. Tiene cuatro años, ocho años, doce años. Tiene miedo. Se golpea contra el absurdo de una vida como una mariposa contra una lámpara.Es claro, justo, extraño, cruel a veces. Se ahogan las lágrimas y la ternura brota como el relámpago.Un texto fascinante en la línea de los grandes relatos sobre el autismo. Y sobre la condición humana.