The fall
Subtitle: a father's memoir in 424 steps
By: Diogo Mainardi ; translated from the Portuguese by Margaret Jull Costa
Contributors: Costa, Margaret Jull, translator
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 145
ISBN-13: 9781846557804
Subjects: Families; Family; Father-Child Relations; Cerebral palsied children; Disabled Children; Fathers and sons; Vaderschap; Fathers of children with disabilities; Health; Paralysis, Spastic, in children; Gehandicapten; Family relationships; Cerebral Palsy; Biography
Work titles: Queda
Description: 'Knowing how to fall is much more valuable than knowing how to walk.' The Fall is a memoir like no other. Its 424 short texts match the number of steps taken by Diogo Mainardi's son Tito as he walks, with great difficulty, with his father around Venice, the city where the disastrous birth took place that left him with cerebral palsy. It is the story of a father and his love for his handicapped son, bristling with family history, art, literature and ideas. From Marcel Proust to Neil Young, Sigmund Freud to Humpty Dumpty, Renaissance Venice to the camp at Auschwitz, Mainardi charts the trajectory of the Western world, with Tito at its centre, showing how his fate has been shaped by history.
Notes: "First published [in Portuguese] with the title: A Queda : as memorias de um pai em 424 passos in 2012 by Editora Record in Rio de Janeiro"--Title page verso.