title: A Journey Round My Skull (New York Review Books Classics)
author:  Frigyes Karinthy 
description: "Karinthys book is, to my mind, a masterpiece. We are inundated now with medical memoirs, both biographical and autobiographicalthe entire genre has exploded in the last twenty years. Yet even though the technology may have changed, the human experience has not, and <i>Journey Around My Skull</i>, the first autobiographical description of a journey inside the brain, remains one of the very best. --Oliver Sacks (from the Introduction)<br /><br />The first patients-eye-view account of a brain operation in medical historyremarkable. <i>Time</i><br /><br />The <i>London Evening Standard</i> called <i>A Journey Round My Skull</i>an extraordinary book. <i>The New Statesman</i> and <i>Nation</i> called it a very remarkable book. <i>The Spectator</i> an unusual and extremely interesting book. The <i>Glasgow Herald </i>a terrible and marvelous book. <i>The British Medical Journal</i> a book of the highest value. This chorus of praise is not too strong<i>A Journey Round My Skull</i> is a document that few other men would have written and that no reader will easily forget. <i>The New York Times</i><br /><br />Here is a book of surpassing interest and powerWritten with utmost clarity and candor, Karinthys account of his illness and operation is a compelling, unique achievement which needs no artificethe patients narrative holds the reader in a spell. <i>Los Angeles Times</i><br /><br />Pirandello could not have written it bettera triumph of writing, a very remarkable book. <i>The New Statesman</i><br /><br />It would be impossible to read anything so moving, so frightening or so excitinga terrible and marvelous book. It will be treasured by the courageous reader for its beauty, its poetry and its revelation of an experience that happily comes to few men. <i>John OLondons Weekly</i><br /><br />A remarkable subject, and the book is as remarkable as its subject. Not a touch of morbidity adheres to the storyindeed an extraordinary book. <i>The Evening Standard</i><br /><br />This unusual and extremely interesting bookas well as being a brilliantly imaginative record of an illness, the book is also a very revealing autobiography.<i>The Spectator</i><br /><br />"Karinthy was a magnificent parodist and a ruthless but never pompous social critic. His poetry was a mixture of carefully polished, effectively classicist and broadly-rolling, Whitmanesque verse." Adam Makkai<br /><br />Karinthy gives a minute description of his skull, a description that covers both the physical and psychologicalbut he also incorporates his readings (Thomas Manns <i>Joseph and his Brethern,</i> Scotts account of his journeys to the South Pole, Jules Vernes <i>Michel Strogoff</i>) and a variety of philosophical musingsWhat a pleasure to sit down with a witty, urbane, eminently well educated human being, to bask in his presence as he recounts to you something of vital importance to him. We could do with a few more Karinthys nowadays. <i>The Hungarian Quarterly</i><br /><br />A brilliant humorist and prose-writer. <i>The Independent</i> [UK]<br /><br />[Karinthy] possesses the sharp and biting satire of Voltaire; the provocative doubt of Shaw; the poetic fantasy of Maeterlinck. Karinthy is a universal literary genius: playwright, humorist, poet, novelist, critic, essayist, literary caricaturist, etcHe has that rare ability of our own Charlie Chaplin, in that whatever he attempts to do, he can make us feel that he is a genius. <i>Los Angeles Times</i><br /><br />This book is both a human document and a piece of authentic literature, not devoid of humor. <i>The New York Times</i>
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  Next Generation: The Skulls
   
  Part One
   
  Sam Crescent
   
  Copyright © 2020
   
  
  Prologue
   
  Present day
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  front of the car. “I’ll drive my fucking car!” He growled the words and pointed at Anthony. “Get 