![]() ![]() In a series of books since the 1970s, he has more or less invented a new literary subgenre - neurological anecdotes as a branch of belles lettres. ![]() But then Sacks, who was played by Robin Williams (under the name Malcolm Sayer) in the 1990 film Awakenings, has achieved a degree of public attention that music scholars with aspirations to be public intellectuals can only dream of. The neurologist Oliver Sacks must be one of the few authors reviewed in musicological journals to have been portrayed in a Hollywood film. ![]()
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