Winner of the 2020 Helen and Kurt Wolff Translation Prize The Fox and Dr.
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..
Shimamura concludes, are incompatible with Japanese politeness.
Next he travels to Europe and works with such luminaries as Charcot, Breuer and Freud--whose methods, Dr.
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...
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.
As an outstanding young Japanese medical student at the end of the nineteenth century, Dr.
Shimamura toothsomely encompasses East and West, memory and reality, fox-possession myths, and psychiatric mythmaking.
Winner of the 2020 Helen and Kurt Wolff Translation Prize The Fox and Dr
