The Amok Runners

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Stanley, Henry E. J. ed. and trans.(1866) A description of the coasts of East Africa and Malabar by Duarte Barbosa‎ [1], Hakluyt Society It was published in 1922, and it was an immediate great success and was translated into several languages immediately. During the interwar years, Zweig was the author who was most translated into other languages, worldwide. I think this is the most important fact that may act in his defence. His writings were welcomed by many different cultures. His mind was as cosmopolitan as it could be.

I listened to a Swedish translation of the novella. Hugo Hultenberg did the translation form German to Swedish. What I can state is that the prose was absolutely wonderful—stunning, emotive, captivating, enthralling. I wonder and hope the German to English translation is as good. Definition of Amok". Medterms.com. Archived from the original on 21 March 2013 . Retrieved 17 September 2018. When the first person narrator offers to help the doctor, the latter categorically turns down the offer, disappearing to be never heard of again. Only at the arrival in Naples, the narrator learns about a mysterious accident that happened while the cargo was being discharged: when the lead coffin with the woman’s remains was being unloaded, the doctor threw himself onto the coffin that was fastened to ropes, thereby dragging both the coffin and him down to the bottom of the sea. Neither could the person running amok be saved nor could the coffin be recovered. Borrowed from English amok, from Portuguese amouco, from Malay amuk ( “ to go on a killing spree ” ).Saint Martin, M.L. (1999). "Running Amok: A Modern Perspective on a Culture-Bound Syndrome". Primary Care Companion to the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry. 1 (3): 66–70. doi: 10.4088/pcc.v01n0302. PMC 181064. PMID 15014687. A disease that spreads relentlessly, a frenzy... Everyone you see, meet, greet may suddenly become your enemy.

This one novel, however, may, controversially, hurt the politically- conscientious individual from the twenty-first century. With this kind of controversial situations, I try to borrow the hat, or the lenses, of an historian, and not judge an individual by the times, and place, in which, his/her own destiny made his soul take corporeal presence. In the Philippines, amok also means unreasoning murderous rage by an individual. In 1876, the Spanish governor-general of the Philippines José Malcampo coined the term juramentado for the behavior (from juramentar – "to take an oath"), surviving into modern Philippine languages as huramentado. [23] It has historically been linked with the Moro people of Mindanao, particularly in the Sulu Archipelago, in connection with societal and cultural pressures. [24] In his memoirs, The World of Yesterday, he describes his method of composition. It was based on one word: trimming. He would write and write, and then his most enjoyable activity was cutting things out and paring his writing to the bone. It seems that he would cut 100,000 words to half that.Early travelers in Asia sometimes describe a kind of military amok, in which soldiers apparently facing inevitable defeat suddenly burst into a frenzy of violence which so startled their enemies that it either delivered victory or at least ensured what the soldier in that culture considered an honourable death. AMOK RUNNER Discover the tragic events of a doctor who faces an existential crisis in a small, remote seaside town.