A Journey Round My Skull - Frigyes Karinthy

A Journey Round My Skull by Frigyes Karinthy / ISBN 9781590172582 / paperback from New York Review of Books Classics / If you haven't read this one but used to follow my pre-50 Watts blog, get it! (Well, read it no matter what...) *** "Karinthy’s book is, to my mind, a masterpiece. We are inundated now with medical memoirs, both biographical and autobiographical–the entire genre has exploded in the last twenty years. Yet even though the technology may have changed, the human experience has not, and Journey Around My Skull, the first autobiographical description of a journey inside the brain, remains one of the very best.” --Oliver Sacks (from the Introduction) The distinguished Hungarian author Frigyes Karinthy was sitting in a Budapest café, 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. Stra