Too Dark and Unbearably Quiet. How I Perceive, Imagine, and Understand the World Around Me. Memories of a Deaf-Blind Woman

The author of the book is a person with an unusual fate. As a child, she fell ill with meningitis and completely lost her sight, and then her hearing. At about the age of ten, she went to a school-clinic for deaf-blind children, where, under the guidance of Professor I. A. Sokolyansky, her speech was restored. Here she also received a secondary education. Later, she defended her dissertation at the Research Institute of Defectology. This woman wrote several books and many scientific articles, but it was this book that became the main work of her life, since in it she tried to tell about how she imagined the world, about what kind of world it is, without colors and sounds...