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03319aam a2200493 i 4500 001 12AFD6829C8F11E981649E3E97128E48 003 SILO 005 20190702010117 008 180921s2019 nyu 000 f eng 010 $a 2018039751 020 $a 0811226247 020 $a 9780811226240 035 $a (OCoLC)1060177861 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d UKMGB $d OCLCO $d UAP $d OCLCF $d GK8 $d YDX $d ZCU $d SILO 041 1 $a eng $h ger 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a PT2685.U56 $b F8313 2019 082 00 $a 833/.92 $2 23 100 1 $a Wunnicke, Christine, $d 1966- $e author. 240 10 $a Fuchs und Dr. Shimamura. $l English 245 14 $a The fox and Dr. Shimamura / $c Christine Wunnicke ; translated from the German by Philip Boehm. 246 30 $a Fox and Doctor Shimamura 246 30 $a Fox & Dr. Shimamura 246 30 $a Fox & Doctor Shimamura 264 1 $a New York : $b New Directions Publications, $c [2019] 300 $a 151 pages ; $c 21 cm 500 $a "New Directions paperbook original" -- title page. 500 $a Originally published as Der Fuchs und Dr. Shimamura by Berenbberg Verlag in 2015. 520 $a "The Fox and Dr. Shimamura toothsomely encompasses Japan and Europe, memory and actuality, fox-possession myths and psychiatric mythmaking. The novel begins near the story's end, in Dr. Shimamura's retirement. A feverish invalid, he's watched over by four women: his wife, his mother, his mother-in- law, and a nurse (originally one of his psychiatric patients). His mother is busily writing and rewriting his biography, Between Genius and Madness. 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 of an epidemic of fox possession. He considers the assignment a joke, believing it's all a hoax, until he sees a fox moving under the skin of a beauty. He comes to believe not just in fox possession, but also that he in fact "cured" the young woman with a kiss, by breathing in the fox demon (the root of his lifelong fever). Next he travels to Europe and works with such luminaries as Charcot, Breuer and (briefly) Freud himself (whose methods he concludes are incompatible with Japanese politeness). The ironic parallels between Charcot's hack theories of female "hysteria" and Japanese ancient folklore--when it comes to beautiful writhing young women--are handled with a lightly sardonic touch by Christine Wunnicke, whose flavor-packed language is a delight"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Psychiatrists $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Foxes $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Demoniac possession $v Fiction. 650 7 $a Japanese fiction. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00981525 651 7 $a Europe. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01245064 655 7 $a Magic realist fiction. $2 lcgft 655 7 $a Novels. $2 lcgft 700 1 $a Boehm, Philip, $e translator. 776 08 $i Online version: $a Wunnicke, Christine, 1966- author. $t Fox and Dr. Shimamura $d New York : New Directions Publications, [2019] $z 9780811226257 $w (DLC) 2018052091 941 $a 3 952 $l GBPF771 $d 20200103011500.0 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20191213021659.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20190806075022.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=12AFD6829C8F11E981649E3E97128E48 994 $a 92 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search