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The Fox and Dr. Shimamura
Taschenbuch von Christine Wunnicke
Sprache: Englisch

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Winner of the 2020 Helen and Kurt Wolff Translation Prize

The Fox and Dr. Shimamura toothsomely encompasses East and West, memory and reality, fox-possession myths, and psychiatric mythmaking. As an outstanding young Japanese medical student at the end of the nineteenth century, Dr. Shimamura is sent-to his dismay-to the provinces: he is asked to cure scores of young women afflicted by an epidemic of fox possession. Believing it's all a hoax, he considers the assignment an insulting joke, until he sees a fox moving under the skin of a young beauty... Next he travels to Europe and works with such luminaries as Charcot, Breuer and Freud-whose methods, Dr. Shimamura concludes, are incompatible with Japanese politeness. The ironic parallels between Charcot's theories of female hysteria and ancient Japanese fox myths-when it comes to beautiful, writhing young women-are handled with a lightly sardonic touch by Christine Wunnicke, whose flavor-packed, inventive language is a delight.
Winner of the 2020 Helen and Kurt Wolff Translation Prize

The Fox and Dr. Shimamura toothsomely encompasses East and West, memory and reality, fox-possession myths, and psychiatric mythmaking. As an outstanding young Japanese medical student at the end of the nineteenth century, Dr. Shimamura is sent-to his dismay-to the provinces: he is asked to cure scores of young women afflicted by an epidemic of fox possession. Believing it's all a hoax, he considers the assignment an insulting joke, until he sees a fox moving under the skin of a young beauty... Next he travels to Europe and works with such luminaries as Charcot, Breuer and Freud-whose methods, Dr. Shimamura concludes, are incompatible with Japanese politeness. The ironic parallels between Charcot's theories of female hysteria and ancient Japanese fox myths-when it comes to beautiful, writhing young women-are handled with a lightly sardonic touch by Christine Wunnicke, whose flavor-packed, inventive language is a delight.
Über den Autor
Christine Wunnicke lives in Munich, Germany. She has published four award-winning novels, a biography, and several translations.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
Genre: Romane & Erzählungen
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Taschenbuch
Seiten: 160
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780811226240
ISBN-10: 0811226247
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Wunnicke, Christine (New Directions)
Übersetzung: Boehm, Philip
Hersteller: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Maße: 204 x 134 x 13 mm
Von/Mit: Christine Wunnicke
Erscheinungsdatum: 21.06.2019
Gewicht: 0,174 kg
preigu-id: 114030025
Über den Autor
Christine Wunnicke lives in Munich, Germany. She has published four award-winning novels, a biography, and several translations.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
Genre: Romane & Erzählungen
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Taschenbuch
Seiten: 160
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780811226240
ISBN-10: 0811226247
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Wunnicke, Christine (New Directions)
Übersetzung: Boehm, Philip
Hersteller: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Maße: 204 x 134 x 13 mm
Von/Mit: Christine Wunnicke
Erscheinungsdatum: 21.06.2019
Gewicht: 0,174 kg
preigu-id: 114030025
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