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Mr. Muo's Travelling Couch by Dai Sijie
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Mr. Muo's Travelling Couch (original 2003; edition 2006)

by Dai Sijie

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After years of studying Freud in Paris, Mr. Muo returns home to bring the benefits of psychoanalysis to twenty-first-century China and to somehow free his college sweetheart, now a political prisoner, a quest that leads him to the sadistic local magistrate.
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Title:Mr. Muo's Travelling Couch
Authors:Dai Sijie
Info:Anchor (2006), Paperback, 304 pages
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Tags:sexuality, freud, China, corruption, psychoanalysis

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Mr. Muo's Travelling Couch by Dai Sijie (2003)

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I've been trying but I'm over 60 pages in and it still is really failing to grab me. I loved Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress but this doesn't have it's spark.
  amyem58 | Jun 22, 2023 |
War Ok ( )
  roflkopf | Jan 14, 2021 |
Bizarre story, quirky characters - not at all sure it was a comedy, maybe black. People and places vividly describe - could be a good movie? ( )
  siri51 | Oct 15, 2018 |
I loved Balzac & the Little Seamstress but I was bored reading this. Either I missed the point (entirely possible!) or this is not is finest. Maybe read again in a few years to see if the years throw this book into a a new perspective for me. ( )
  essjay1 | Jan 11, 2017 |
I found Mr. Muo's Travelling Couch to be a disjointed, vaguely plotted book. I did not enjoy it and forced myself to finish it because I was reading it for book club. I kept hoping to find the humor in it since written on the back cover was how funny it was but I never found the humor. I don't know if I'll read this author again. ( )
  Sheila1957 | Dec 7, 2015 |
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Eine mit pinkfarbenem Plastik ummantelte Stahlkette spiegelt sich wie eine glänzende Schlange in der Scheibe eines Abteilfensters, hinter dem die aufblitzenden Lichtsignale zu smaragdblauen und rubinroten Punkten schrumpfen, bis sie vom Dunst einer warmen Julinacht verschluckt werden.
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After years of studying Freud in Paris, Mr. Muo returns home to bring the benefits of psychoanalysis to twenty-first-century China and to somehow free his college sweetheart, now a political prisoner, a quest that leads him to the sadistic local magistrate.

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