{"product_id":"christine-wunnicke-the-fox-and-dr-shimamura-9780811226240","title":"The Fox and Dr. Shimamura","description":"Winner of the 2020 Helen and Kurt Wolff Translation Prize\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nThe 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.  ","brand":"New Directions Publishing Corporation","offers":[{"title":"Used - very good","offer_id":53601123729750,"sku":"9780811226240-V","price":15.77,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0925\/5829\/5382\/files\/product_image_9780811226240_1_900304bd-6d80-4e22-b13b-5ace6421e3b9.jpg?v=1781720776","url":"https:\/\/www.momoxbooks.com\/products\/christine-wunnicke-the-fox-and-dr-shimamura-9780811226240","provider":"momoxbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}