Invisible

Hugues de Montalembert, a painter and photographer, was blinded by paint thinner during a robbery in New York in 1978. This impressionistic memoir is a reminder that the senses must be fully engaged to be useful. It is not good enough to look at something without seeing it, or to hear without listening. Montalembert is not courageous, although that is how it seems at first glance; he is simply irrepressibly alive.