Acido, ergo sum: Holger Hydén – the neuroscientist in Cortázar's Hopscotch

Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria

Guillermo Delgado¹  Bruno Estanol¹ 

关键词: neurosciences;    biography;    Sweden;    medicine in literature;    Argentina;    neurociencias;    biografia;    Suecia;    medicina na literatura;    Argentina;   

DOI  :  10.1590/0004-282X20130048

来源: SciELO

【 摘 要 】

The fictional Italian author Morelli is throughout the novel “Hopscotch” (1963) Julio Cortázar's alter ego. This character proposes an unoriginal literary hypothesis in chapter 62. There is an allusion to a particular Swedish that ‘is working on a chemical theory of thought.’ The Swedish neuroscientist under analysis is Holger Hydén (1917-2000), by then professor and chairman of the Department of Histology at the University of Göteborg. Hydén, who was the first to work in neurobiological micromethods, is mentioned by Morelli due to his participation in a symposium held at the end of January 1961, in San Francisco. His pioneering work will never be completely forgotten, because Hydén's neuroscientific legacy lives and will live in Cortázar's “Hopscotch”.

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