Neurological Impairment and Literary Empowerment in Nicole Krauss’s Man Walks into a Room
European Journal of American Studies January 6, 2025 Pascale Antolin
In Man Walks into a Room, a neuronovel staging an amnesiac, Nicole Krauss challenges the memory-identity equation. While she draws on neuroscience, she also writes against it, as she emphasizes the explanatory gap and the problem of qualia. To resist the growing authority of neuroscience and its often reductionist discourse, Krauss features a neurosurgeon as a mad scientist coming straight out...