《普鲁斯特找到了记忆的秘密》在这个技术驱动的时代，人们很容易相信科学可以解决每一个谜题。毕竟，科学治愈了无数疾病，甚至把人类送上了太空。但正如乔纳·莱勒在这部闪耀的处女作中所指出的那样，科学并不是获得知识的唯一途径。事实上，在对大脑奥秘的探索过程中，艺术时常超越科学而捷足先登。在艺术与科学的角逐中，《普鲁斯特找到了记忆的秘密》揭示了艺术一次次胜出的扣人心弦的故事。
作者乔纳·莱勒列举了19~20世纪闻名世界的8位艺术家——“自由体诗人”沃尔特·惠特曼、“英国心理小说先驱”乔治·艾略特、“西厨之王”奥古斯特·埃斯科菲耶、“意识流文学先驱”马塞尔·普鲁斯特、“现代绘画之父”保罗·塞尚、“音乐界的毕加索”伊戈尔·斯特拉温斯基、“现代主义之母”格特鲁德·斯泰因、和“游走在优雅和疯癫之间”的女作家弗吉尼亚·伍尔夫。艺术家以敏锐的直觉和整体的把握能力，在科学家之前，揭开大脑的奥秘，发现人类思维和创造力的真谛，推动人类文化的发展。
艺术与科学的结合证明了跨学科跨界能力培养的重要性，艺术与科学的交融是达成卓越创造力的基本规律。
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畅销书作家。于哥伦比亚大学学习神经科学，曾跟随诺贝尔生理学或医学奖得主埃里克·坎德尔（EricKandel），在他的实验室里做有关记忆的生物学研究实验。
曾获得有“全球青年诺贝尔奖”美誉的罗德奖学金（RhodesScholarship），成为牛津大学罗德学者，始终关注20世纪的文学艺术，对艺术与科学的关系进行了深入研究。
曾多次为《纽约客》《华盛顿邮报》等媒体撰稿。擅长用通俗易懂的语言向大众介绍神经科学、心理学等方向的研究，尤其关注艺术与科学的关系。
Proust Finds the Secret of Memory In this technology-driven age, it's easy to believe that science can solve every puzzle. After all, science has cured countless diseases and even sent humans into space. But as Jonah Lehrer points out in this sparkling debut novel, science isn't the only way to gain knowledge. In fact, when it comes to exploring the mysteries of the brain, art often beats science to the punch. In the battle between art and science, Proust Finds the Secret of Memory reveals the gripping story of how art has triumphed again and again.
The author Jonah Leiler lists eight famous artists of the 19th and 20th century: Walt Whitman, the "free style poet", George Eliot, the "pioneer of English psychological fiction", August Escofier, the "king of Western kitchen", Marcel Proust, the "pioneer of stream of consciousness literature", Paul Cezanne, the "father of modern painting", and the "Picasso of music" Gore Stravinsky, Gertrude Stein, the "mother of modernism," and Virginia Woolf, who "walked the fine line between elegance and madness." With their keen intuition and overall grasp, artists uncover the mysteries of the brain before scientists, discover the true meaning of human thinking and creativity, and promote the development of human culture.
The combination of art and science proves the importance of cultivating interdisciplinary and cross-border ability, and the integration of art and science is the basic law of achieving excellent creativity.
About the author
Best-selling author. He studied neuroscience at Columbia University and worked with EricKandel, Nobel Prize winner in Physiology or Medicine, in his lab on the biology of memory.
He has won the RhodesScholar (RhodesScholarship), the "Global Nobel Prize for young people", and became a RhodesScholar at the University of Oxford. He has always been concerned about the literature and art of the 20th century, and has conducted in-depth research on the relationship between art and science.
He has written for The New Yorker, The Washington Post and many others. He is good at introducing research in neuroscience, psychology and other fields to the public in plain language, especially focusing on the relationship between art and science.
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