A Journey Round My Skull

by Frigyes Karinthy
A Journey Round My Skull  
published March 11th 2008 by NYRB Classics
binding Paperback
isbn 1590172582   (isbn13: 9781590172582)
pages 312
description Hungarian author Frigyes Karinthy was sitting at his desk trying to decide between writing a long-projected monograph on modern man or polishing up a ...more
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08-06-07



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Nathaniel
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04/17/08

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In recognition of its thoroughness and accuracy, book store franchises shelve this memoir in the medical section, though it reads like literature. Frigyes Karinthy was a well known and much respected writer and humorist in Budapest in the 1930s when he began to suffer from intensifying auditory hallucinations. These disturbances initiate his progression through the medical establishments of Budapest, Vienna and Stockholm. In parallel, his symptoms accumulate, prompt various misdiagnoses (such as...more
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Mark
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03/31/08

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While sitting in a Budapest café, writer Frigyes Karinthy (1887–1938) suddenly heard the roaring of a train, without there being a train station nearby. The roaring noise he heard over and over again turned out to be an auditory hallucination, and the writer’s calvary began.

Even though he fainted on several occasions and his eyesight deteriorated severely, first neither he nor his doctors suspected serious illness. But as his symptoms became more and more severe, he arrived at the conc...more
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Read in May, 1995
Karinthy, always.

Too bad the world won't know his genious for the lack of translations and the impossible task of translating the full depth of his writing.

He is Vonegut and Huxley and Defoe and so much more than all of them combined.
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Added to list after reading Oliver Sacks' article in the NY Review of Books. http://www.nybooks.com/article...
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So far... really quite incredible! More soon...
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