You Still Have Your Head

New York: Macmillan Company, 1957. first edition. hardcover. very good+: toning and foxing to endpapers, text clean, binding tight./good: mild corner wear, clipped. 8vo 247pp. stated first printing. From front flap: "By publishing his autobiographical works, Confessions of a European Intellectual and The Inside Story of an Outsider, Franz Schoenberner believed he had communicated the most memorable and dramatic events of his life. And then, a few weeks after his fifty-ninth birthday, he was the victim of a violent accident which deprived him for more than a year not only of the ability to write but even to move. [. . .] For eighteen weeks, Mr. Schoenberner lay in a hospital bed, paralyzed from the neck down. This book is devoted to his fascinating thoughts during that period. With modesty, independence, epigrammatic wit and humor, he reflects on fate and character, speaks of American kindness and American violence. He has some amusing things to say about his nurses, a subject that leads him into an interesting digression on the philosophy of prudery. Religion, the life of Heinrich Heine, a meeting with Helen Keller, psychology, philosophy--Franz Schoenberner's penetrating comments on these varied matters show him at the top of his form." #01087.