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Journey Around My Skull Book Description Famous Hungarian writer Frigyes Karinthy is sitting in a cafe in Budapest and thinking about whether to write an essay about modern man or a new theater play. Just then, he hears a noise that drowns out all sounds: A huge train is passing in front of him. When that train leaves, a new one passes. Then another. Karinthy asked, “What is this?” "The last time I saw a train on the streets of Budapest was when I was seven years old," he thinks. Then he realizes that he is hallucinating. In reality, Karinthy has a tumor in his brain; It is neither cancerous nor benign. Much later, when he could no longer bear the dizziness, fainting spells, his friends telling him that his handwriting had changed, and the disappearance of letters in the books he was reading, he consulted a doctor and after a series of examinations, he underwent brain surgery. Karinthy's description of her gradual decline into the grip of the disease, her observations of her symptoms, her thoughts and feelings, and the various reactions of her friends and doctors to her predicament are both honest and interesting. Journey Around My Skull is an extraordinary medical memoir as well as an extremely powerful work of literature. (From the Promotional Bulletin)