The cranes are both a reflection of the story's concern of species preservation and are also allegorical, metaphorical. Siliconvalleyism and the flight from critical judgement is a greater threat to the liberal ideal than anything in Putin’s armoury. No matter that the very idea that the human brain is a kind of computer is, in the words of the great neuroscientist Gerald Edelman, “one of the most remarkable misunderstandings in the history of science”; no matter that human judgement and creativity are not the output of a series of syntactical rules.

Sacks was the author of a number of nonfiction books, beginning with Awakenings (1973) and The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat (1985), which use case histories interwoven with explanatory narrative to describe a range of brain conditions that result in unusual manifestations of neurologic deficits, in much the way Weber does in The Echo Maker. But when Mark emerges from a coma, he believes that this woman–who looks, acts, and sounds just like his sister–is really an imposter.His friends Duane and Rupp, who may have had something to do with the accident, are even worse, something of an excuse for the degenerate path that Mark has chosen in life. But, at the same time, the book gradually adjusts as it progresses so that, by the end, we are reading what we have come to expect from Powers. To ensure all information is accurate and of value to you, we’ve designed a production system and a content review process that keeps this content close to the source and as factual as possible. After a near-death experience on a wintery rural road in Nebraska, he now struggles with Capgras syndrome: post-traumatic affliction leading him to believe that his sister, Karin, is an imposter.

la storia di Mark, che si perde, e dei circuiti impazziti del suo cervello, ove tutto, all'improvviso, diventa caos, ed è la storia di Karin, che ha provato a mettere ordine nella sua vita, allontanandosi da Kearney, e che invece, risucchiata dal caos della mente del fratello è costretta a tornare per ricominciare ad affondare lentamente nel proprio. This article argues that Richard Powers’s The Echo Maker (2006) offers a counter-narrative to American nativism and imperialism, which gained power after September 11, 2001. Everything gets worked out by the end of the book, except that none of the main characters remain the same as they used to be.The other thing found at Mark’s bedside is a mysterious note the text of which makes up the headings for each of the five sections of the book.