A Curable Romantic

Science, religion, and language intersect in this edgy, Judeo-mystic satire about love, brotherhood, and neuroses in fin-de-siècle Vienna. In 1895, oculist Jakob Sammelsohn meets Sigmund Freud on the same night that he eyes and falls in love with Freud's primary patient, Emma Eckstein. As Jakob is g......more

Well this was a kind of all over type of book- unlike any other book I have read. You can usually figure out a book half-way through or even just from the cover but this book was all over the place. Will I ever read it again, no. Do I want to own it, no. Did I enjoy every minute of listening to it, Y......more

Ranging anywhere from late 19th century through the twentieth century, this novel certainly has a full time span. It includes great minds and movements of the times (Sigmund Freud, Esperanto, the Resistence movement) as characters or events of the plot. The narrative makes you feel as if you are liv......more