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The Fox and Dr. Shimamura | Christine Wunnicke

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A delicious mix of East and West, of wonder and irony, The Fox and Dr. Shimamura is a most curious novel 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.

Jari-chan

The Fox and Dr. Shimamura | Christine Wunnicke

so-so

I'm not really sure what to think about this book. It sure is different, but also difficult to read. It gets more interesting at the end, since thr story gets a little twisted. Still, this one leaves me somewhat bewildered...

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TheAromaofBooks I know some people like that feeling of ?!?!? when they get to the end of a book, but those endings aren't for me!! 5y

Jari-chan @TheAromaofBooks I actually do like that feeling, too, when I think the author did it well and on purpose. Here it might be just a forced way of writing... š¤·ā€¨ā™€ļø¸ 5y

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HannahDE

The Fox and Dr. Shimamura | Christine Wunnicke

so-so

An interesting look at both the eastern tradition of fox spirit possessions and the western tradition of female hysteria, and a juxtaposition of the two. Short and strange.

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