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Title	:	The Book About Blanche and Marie
Author	:	Per Olov Enquist
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 218 pages
Published	:	March 23rd 2006 by Harry N. Abrams (first published 2004)
Categories	:	Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. European Literature. Swedish Literature. Contemporary. Cultural. Sweden. France. Scandinavian Literature

The Book About Blanche and Marie

Per Olov Enquist

Hardcover | Pages: 218 pages

Rating: 3.35 | 1097 Users | 104 Reviews

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In The Book about Blanche and Marie, Enquist has once again found inspiration from the historical record, this time exploring the fascinatingly complex relationship between two of the twentieth century’s most remarkable women: Blanche Wittman, the famous hysteria patient of Professor J.M. Charcot at Salpetriére Hospital outside Paris, and Marie Curie, the Polish physicist and Nobel Prize winner. While the scientist tries to understand the nature of radiation, Blanche, her assistant and, at the time of her death, a triple amputee as a result of exposure to radiation, fills three notebooks with her exploration of a deceptively simple question: What is love? The Book about Blanche and Marie is at once a haunting look at scientific martyrdom and an intimate moving portrait of a friendship between two uniquely brave and talented women.

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Original Title:	Boken om Blanche och Marie
ISBN:	1585676683 (ISBN13: 9781585676682)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Marie Curie, Emmeline Pankhurst, Blanche Wittman, Sigmund Freud, Albert Einstein
Literary Awards:	Augustpriset Nominee for Fiction (2004), Independent Foreign Fiction Prize Nominee for Shortlist (2007), Bernard Shaw Prize Nominee for Tiina Nunnally (2009), Corine Internationaler Buchpreis for Belletristik (2005)

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Ratings: 3.35 From 1097 Users | 104 Reviews

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This book was EXCELLENT! Translated from Swedish, this is an historical novel using the devices of foreshadowing and repetition. I loved this unique writing style. The cover gives a good indication of what the book is about. Blanche Wittman is on the cover. She has spent time in a home named Salpetriere where she is studied by French doctors as a "medium". We would call, what she displays, multiple personalities. She is treated for hysteria through hypnotism and the ovary compressor. Yes, how

Very interesting subject matter, and it inspired me to find out the true facts behind the narrative, but as a novel it failed for me, the style put a barrier between me and the characters.

I loved the Visit of the Royal Physician, Enquist's earlier book, so right now I'm feeling quite miffed and extremely disappointed. Here are my two major issues.Firstly. The constant teasing of key story elements, repetitions leading into paragraph breaks. Rather than literary technique, it reminded me of the "coming next' teasers in reality TV, the one or two interesting clips that we impatiently wait for, but are ultimately a letdown after the constant teasing. Although that said, I'm not sure

Great subject matter, just found the writing repetitive.

Started up in poetic and thrilling way. The interconnections between live, science, hysteria and radium was alive. But that was almost it, seeing the pattern, feeling its wildness. The book then became a jungleexpedition in search of something more to the primary thesis or some more poetry. But, the idea of the book was a lot better than the book itself.

Unfortunately, this was written in a style that I didn't like on a topic that wasn't of interest to me.(Did learn a few things, though.)

The use and abuse of exclamation points drove me nuts, and the vacuity of the "story" did nothing to make me forget the terrible writing. Its only redeeming quality seems to be its shortness.