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Porazitelʹnyĭ po otkrovennosti dnevnik niderlandskogo vracha-gerontologa, filosofa i pisateli͡a Berta Keĭzera, proslezhivai͡ushchiĭ posledniĭ ėtap zhizni pat͡sientov doma miloserdii͡a, obʺedini͡ai͡ushchego kliniku, dom prestarelykh i khospis. Pronzitelʹnyĭ realizm prevrashchaet chitateli͡a v souchastnika vsego, chto proiskhodit s personazhami knigi. Sudʹby li͡udeĭ skladyvai͡utsi͡a v mozaiku i͡arkikh, glubokikh khudozhestvennykh obrazov. Kniga vsestoronne i ubeditelʹno raskryvaet fizicheskiĭ i dukhovnyĭ podvig vracha, ne ostavli͡ai͡ushchego li͡udeĭ naedine so stradaniem; ego samootverzhennostʹ v dushevnoĭ podderzhke neizlechimo bolʹnykh, vybirai͡ushchikh poroĭ dobrovolʹnyĭ ukhod iz zhizni (v Niderlandakh legalizovana ėvtanazii͡a). Neobʺi͡atnoe prostranstvo kulʹtury - pisateli, filosofy, khudozhniki, muzykanty, poėty ot antichnosti do nashego vremeni - obramli͡aet blesti͡ashchie rassuzhdenii͡a o zhizni i smerti, o li͡ubvi, o chelovecheskom dostoinstve, o vere i neverii, polnye i͡azvitelʹnogo sarkazma, shchemi͡ashchego lirizma, i͡umora i gorʹkoĭ ironii. Bestseller Berta Keĭzera postoi͡anno pereizdaetsi͡a i v originale, i v perevodakh.

Striking Frank diary of a Dutch physician gerontologist, philosopher and writer Bert Keizer, trace the last stage of life of the patients of the house of mercy, unifying the clinic, nursing home and hospice. Poignant realism makes the reader complicit in the actions of everything that happens with the characters in the book. People's destinies are formed in a mosaic of bright, deep artistic images. The book thoroughly and convincingly reveals the physical and spiritual heroism of the doctor, do not leave people alone with suffering; his dedication to spiritual support for terminally patients who choose sometimes voluntary departure from life (in the Netherlands legalized euthanasia). The immense space of culture — writers, philosophers, artists, musicians, poets from antiquity to our time — frames the lustrous reasoning about life and death, about love, about human dignity, faith and unbelief, full of sarcastic sarcasm, melancholic lyricism, humor, and bitter irony. Best seller Bertha Keyser constantly reprinted in the original and in translations.