A Journey Round My Skull (New York Review Books Classics)

A Journey Round My Skull (New York Review Books Classics)
by Frigyes Karinthy

A Journey Round My Skull (New York Review Books Classics)
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Author: Frigyes Karinthy
Introduction: Oliver Sacks
Translator: Vernon Duckworth Barker
Edition: Paperback
Published: 2008-03-11
ISBN: 1590172582
Number of pages: 312
Publisher: NYRB Classics

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Book Review: Fascinating and insightful
Summary: 5 Stars

I purchased this book because, upon browsing it in the bookstore, it mirrored much of my experience with seizures and brain surgery. His descriptions and the unreal experience of having a brain disease hit the bulls eye. The floating, stream of conciousness-like storytelling brings home the feelings involved with such a curious experience. I'm enjoying it immensely.
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The distinguished Hungarian author Frigyes Karinthy was sitting in a Budapest caf?, wondering whether to write a long-planned monograph on modern man or a new play, when he was disturbed by the roaring—so loud as to drown out all other noises—of a passing train. Soon it was gone, only to be succeeded by another. And another. Strange, Karinthy thought, it had been years since Budapest had streetcars. Only then did he realize he was suffering from an auditory hallucination of extraordinary intensity.

What in fact Karinthy was suffering from was a brain tumor, not cancerous but hardly benign, though it was only much later—after spells of giddiness, fainting fits, friends remarking that his handwriting had altered, and books going blank before his eyes—that he consulted a doctor and embarked on a series of examinations that would lead to brain surgery. Karinthy’s description of his descent into illness and his observations of his symptoms, thoughts, and feelings, as well as of his friends’ and doctors’ varied responses to his predicament, are exact and engrossing and entirely free of self-pity. A Journey Round My Skull is not only an extraordinary piece of medical testimony, but a powerful work of literature—one that dances brilliantly on the edge of extinction.

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