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Begegnung mit einer Krankheit: Richard Wagners Herr Parkinson im internationalen Vergleich

Brigid Haines

Spiegelungen: Zeitschrift für deutsche Kultur und Geschichte Südosteuropas, Volume: 137, Pages: 1 - 240

Swansea University Author: Brigid Haines

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The paper examines the German-Romanian writer Richard Wagner's 2015 Herr Parkinson (Mr Parkinson), a memoir which attempts to come to terms with the onset and course of his Parkinson's Disease. The text is approached through comparison with the foundational Parkinson's patient texts,...

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Published in: Spiegelungen: Zeitschrift für deutsche Kultur und Geschichte Südosteuropas
ISBN: 978-3-7917-3021-9
Online Access: http://www.ikgs.de/spiegelungen
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title Begegnung mit einer Krankheit: Richard Wagners Herr Parkinson im internationalen Vergleich
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description The paper examines the German-Romanian writer Richard Wagner's 2015 Herr Parkinson (Mr Parkinson), a memoir which attempts to come to terms with the onset and course of his Parkinson's Disease. The text is approached through comparison with the foundational Parkinson's patient texts, Michael J Fox's Lucky Man (2002) and Always Looking Up (2010), as well as with the essay and photo series Parkinson: Leben mit der Pechkrankheit (Parkinson: Living with the Unlucky Illness, 2012) by Gerhard Schumann; comparison is also made to the more common genre of the cancer narrative. While cancer narratives tend to speak of battles lost or won and focus on heroism, and Fox's Parkinson's texts are optimistic about the possibilities for accommodation with the disease, Wagner's Herr Parkinson, with its uncanny personification of his new unwelcome and all-powerful companion, presents a gloomier view of an intruded-upon - for Parkinson's starts in the brain - life.
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