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(Texts and Contexts. Vol. 17.) By Linda Hutcheon and Michael Hutcheon. 294 pp. Lincoln, Nebr., University of Nebraska Press, 1996. $40. ISBN-0-8032-2367-6.

It was a rainy Good Friday in 1954. A fellow intern at the Brooklyn Jewish Hospital agreed to cover for me. I took the subway to the Metropolitan Opera House to see Parsifal, an opera I have seen every year since. One of Parsifal's overwhelming moments takes place in act 2. Kundry, a symbol of the "eternal-womanly," entices Parsifal in a luxuriant garden, where she embraces him with a long kiss. Parsifal reacts with horror and bursts out: "Amfortas! — Die Wunde! — Die Wunde!"

According to Opera: Desire, Disease, Death, the wound in question was not inflicted by . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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