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    Paul Kalanithi

    PAUL KALANITHI was a neurosurgeon and writer. He held degrees in English literature, human biology, and history and philosophy of science and medicine from Stanford and Cambridge universities before graduating from Yale School of Medicine. He also received the American Academy of Neurological Surgeryâe(tm)s highest award for research. His reflections on doctoring and illness have been published in the New York Times, the Washington Post and the Paris Review Daily. Kalanithi died in March 2015, aged 37. He is survived by his wife, Lucy, and their daughter, Elizabeth Acadia.
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    #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • This inspiring, exquisitely observed memoir finds hope and beauty in the face of insurmountable odds as an idealistic young neurosurgeon attempts to answer the question What makes a life worth living?

    NAMED ONE OF PASTE’S BEST MEMOIRS OF THE DECADE • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book Review • People • NPR • The Washington Post • Slate • Harper’s Bazaar • Time Out New York • Publishers Weekly • BookPage

    Finalist for the PEN Center USA Literary Award in Creative Nonfiction and the Books for a Better Life Award in Inspirational Memoir

    At the age of thirty-six, on the verge of completing a decade’s worth of training as a neurosurgeon, Paul Kalanithi was diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer. One day he was a doctor treating the dying, and the next he was a patient struggling to live. And just like that, the future he and his wife had imagined evaporated. When Breath Becomes Air chronicles Kalanithi’s transformation from a naïve medical student “possessed,” as he wrote, “by the question of what, given that all organisms die, makes a virtuous and meaningful life” into a neurosurgeon at Stanford working in the brain, the most critical place for human identity, and finally into a patient and new father confronting his own mortality.

    What makes life worth living in the face of death? What do you do when the future, no longer a ladder toward your goals in life, flattens out into a perpetual present? What does it mean to have a child, to nurture a new life as another fades away? These are some of the questions Kalanithi wrestles with in this profoundly moving, exquisitely observed memoir.

    Paul Kalanithi died in March 2015, while working on this book, yet his words live on as a guide and a gift to us all. “I began to realize that coming face to face with my own mortality, in a sense, had changed nothing and everything,” he wrote. “Seven words from Samuel Beckett began to repeat in my head: ‘I can’t go on. I’ll go on.’” When Breath Becomes Air is an unforgettable, life-affirming reflection on the challenge of facing death and on the relationship between doctor and patient, from a brilliant writer who became both.
    Aos 36 anos, Paul Kalanithi foi diagnosticado com um câncer incurável. Neurocirurgião brilhante, de repente se viu diante de uma cruel inversão de papéis: num dia era o médico tratando de pacientes com problemas graves, no outro era o paciente lutando pela própria sobrevivência.

    O último sopro de vida narra a trajetória de Paul ao longo do tratamento – a descoberta da doença, a esperança de uma possível remissão, a incerteza quanto ao futuro, a decisão de se tornar pai, a consciência do fim, a angústia de se despedir da vida antes da hora.

    Sua narrativa é honesta, pungente. Mas, ao mesmo tempo, poética e delicada. Amante da literatura e da filosofia, Paul desde sempre buscou entender a relação entre a vida e a morte, a identidade e a consciência, a ética e a virtude. Seus questionamentos profundos encontram eco em nossas próprias reflexões: afinal, o que faz a vida valer a pena?

    Paul morreu em março de 2015. Deixou como legado uma filha de oito meses e o manuscrito inacabado deste livro. Quem escreveu as páginas finais e encaminhou o texto para publicação foi sua esposa, Lucy, atendendo ao último desejo do marido.

    "Terminar de ler este livro e depois esquecê-lo é uma opção que não existe. Parte da força de O último sopro de vida vem do fato de que seu autor era um indivíduo notável. E parte vem da maneira genial como ele narra o que lhe aconteceu – esperando viver, aprendendo a morrer. Mas nada aqui é piegas. Nada é exagerado. Como ele mesmo disse, 'é apenas trágico o suficiente'. E também importante o bastante para ser imperdível. " – The New York Times

    "Extraordinário. Emocionante. E essencialmente lindo. As memórias do jovem Dr. Kalanithi são a prova de que aqueles que estão morrendo são os que mais têm a nos ensinar sobre a vida." – Atul Gawande

    Un médecin face à la vie et à sa mort
    À trente-six ans et juste à l’aube d’une brillante carrière de neurochirurgien, Paul Kalanithi découvre qu’il souffre d’un cancer du poumon en phase terminale. En un instant, l’avenir qu’ils ont imaginé avec sa femme, disparait. Un jour, il est ce médecin qui s’occupe des mourants, le lendemain, ce malade qui lutte pour survivre. Quand le souffle rejoint le ciel est le récit de ses multiples métamorphoses. Celle du jeune étudiant, naïf et obsédé par la question existentielle de ce qui donne du sens à la vie, en ce neurochirurgien, gardien s’il en est de l’identité humaine. Puis celle, du médecin chevronné en ce patient et jeune papa qui doit faire face à sa propre mortalité.
    Qu’est qui pousse à vivre quand la mort est si proche ? Qu’est-ce que cela signifie d’avoir un enfant dans ces conditions ? Voici quelques unes des questions auxquelles l’auteur répond dans ce témoignage profondément émouvant et pudiquement détaillé.
    Paul Kalanithi meurt en mars 2015 alors que l’écriture de ce livre n’est pas achevée. Pourtant, ses mots lui survivent. Réflexion inoubliable et vibrante sur le défi d’affronter sa propre mort ainsi que sur la relation médecin-patient, Quand le souffle rejoint le ciel est l’œuvre d’un écrivain brillant qui dut faire face à ces deux enjeux avec une totale sincérité. Un témoignage qui a bouleversé des milliers de lecteurs dans le monde.

    Traduit de l’anglais par Cécile Fruteau
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