Hardy, Chris JD;
(2022)
Commentary on 'Somewhere out there in a place no one knows: Yoko Ogawa's The Memory Police and the literature of forgetting' by John Henning.
Medical Humanities
10.1136/medhum-2022-012568.
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Abstract
The Memory Police is a disconcerting novel set on a mysterious island. Inhabitants of this island suffer objects being 'disappeared', and we follow our narrator's journey as they try to navigate these disappearances. Henning in their compelling recent essay suggests that the novel can be more fully appreciated by engaging with a literature of forgetting and draws parallels between the events in the book and the course of the neurodegenerative process of Alzheimer's disease. In this commentary, I suggest that the progressive deterioration of conceptual knowledge described in the novel most closely resembles that seen in the rare neurodegenerative disease, semantic dementia.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Commentary on 'Somewhere out there in a place no one knows: Yoko Ogawa's The Memory Police and the literature of forgetting' by John Henning |
| Location: | United States |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1136/medhum-2022-012568 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1136/medhum-2022-012568 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| Keywords: | Dementia, Medical humanities, Neurology |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology > Neurodegenerative Diseases |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10163459 |
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