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The Fox and Dr. Shimamura (Paperback): Christine Wunnicke The Fox and Dr. Shimamura (Paperback)
Christine Wunnicke; Translated by Philip Boehm
R387 Discovery Miles 3 870 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

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.

Die Nachtigall des Zaren (German, Paperback): Christine Wunnicke Die Nachtigall des Zaren (German, Paperback)
Christine Wunnicke
R531 Discovery Miles 5 310 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Leibeunuch Peters des Gro en, singendes Gastgeschenk f r den Khan der Kalm cken, Alleinunterhalter in den Adelsh usern Europas und schlie lich Klosterbruder in einem bayerischen Konvent. Der Kastrat Filippo Balatri (1682-1756) f hrte eines der spektakul rsten S ngerleben der Musikgeschichte. Zwei Fassungen seiner Memoiren (insgesamt fast 5000 handschriftliche Seiten) sind erhalten - eine davon, abgefasst in gereimten Vierzeilern, liegt in der Bayerischen Staatsbibliothek in M nchen, die andere, in Prosa, wird in der ehemaligen Lenin-Bibliothek in Moskau verwahrt. Beide sind unsch tzbare Dokumente, die von der Musik- und Literaturgeschichte lange bersehen wurden. Dank dieser Aufzeichnungen ist Balatris Leben bis ins Detail zu rekonstruieren: ein Leben wie ein Abenteuerroman. Spuckt mir ins Gesicht, schreibt Balatri, wenn ich nicht die Wahrheit sage .

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