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Bruno Kusznir Vitturi1, Wilson Luiz Sanvito1
1Faculdade de Ciências Médicas da Santa Casa de São Paulo, Departamento de Neurologia, São Paulo SP, Brazil.
Abstract:
A unique association joins Guillaume Apollinaire, Blaise Cendrars and Louis Ferdinand Céline. Besides being great exponents of French literature, they were all neurologically wounded during the First World War. Apollinaire had a traumatic brain injury, Cendrars developed phantom limb neuropathic pain and Céline presented radial nerve paralysis. There is quite an evidence that supports that their artistic output was also influenced by acquired neurological conditions during the war. The examples of these three French authors reveal the surprising intimacy Neurology can share with art and history.
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