“我们不断地被吸引去思考人类经历的艰巨性和超越感，同时承认来自我们痛苦和欢乐的物质无法脱离我们的自我意识…《苦难》是作者和读者之间的伙伴关系，它承担自己的生活，尽管是基于疾病最贴切的形容：死亡。”——特威德文学艺术杂志
“基于医学百科的《苦难》里那些想象中的文字，就好像径直脱离了启蒙时代，而科学与宗教仍然关系亲密。”——脉冲，WHYY/NPR电台
“帕瑞卡……用简洁、优雅的语言简述了这些虚构的不幸，就好像一个医生哲学家在展示，置于关于存在性意义的病原论和沉思的模拟学术争论中的荒谬的具体症状，诊断和治疗……帕瑞卡的悲喜剧想象力，对伪拉丁医学散文的巧妙讽刺和反语的精妙感觉让这本书成为引人入胜的阅读。这个对灵魂与肉体疾病的看法萦绕心头。”——柯克斯
“……帕瑞卡分享了与收藏家博尔赫斯一样的对细节的喜爱。事实上几乎可以感受到帕瑞卡沉浸在写作中…《苦难》回报了我们关于思想和身体之间重要联系的想法，我们的记忆能力，语言，道德和爱在生存方面的真实性和重要性不比心脏或肾或肺等器官少。”——信徒。
https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/vikram-paralkar/afflictions/
http://logger.believermag.com/post/108091288019/disease-as-metaphor
http://www.newsworks.org/index.php/local/the-pulse/76081-penn-doctor-releases-fictional-encyclopedia-of-imaginary-diseases-
最后一个环节重点介绍了一个关于作者的文学和哲学敏感性的优秀品味的电台采访。更多关于他的童心，请访问他的推特主页：https://twitter.com/vikramparalkar
"We are constantly invited to ponder the enormity of human experience and the sensation of transcendence, while acknowledging that the physical material from which we are made--and from which we both suffer and rejoice--cannot be severed from our sense of self... The Afflictions is a partnership between author and audience, which takes on a life of its own in spite of and because of disease’s closest intimate: death." - Tweed’s Magazine of Literature and Art
"The imagined text on which The Afflictions is based - the Encyclopedia Medicinae - is written as though it were lifted directly out of the Age of Enlightenment, when science and religion were still easy bedfellows." - The Pulse, WHYY/NPR Radio
"Paralkar...sketches these mythical misfortunes in brief, elegant entries written as if by a physician-philosopher, setting out the preposterous specifics of symptoms, diagnoses and treatments beside mock scholarly debates over etiology and final ruminations on existential import...Paralkar’s tragicomic imagination, sly sendup of pseudo-Latinate medical prose and fine sense of irony make for an arresting read. A haunting take on the ills of flesh and soul." - Kirkus
"...Paralkar shares with Borges a collector’s delight in details. One can practically feel Paralkar luxuriating in the task... The Afflictions returns us to the idea of the essential interconnectedness of mind and body, that our faculties of memory, of language, of morality, of love, are no less real and necessary to survival than the organs of the heart or kidney or lungs." - The Believer
https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/vikram-paralkar/afflictions/
http://logger.believermag.com/post/108091288019/disease-as-metaphor
http://www.newsworks.org/index.php/local/the-pulse/76081-penn-doctor-releases-fictional-encyclopedia-of-imaginary-diseases-
The last link features a radio interview which gives a good taste of the author’s literary and philosophical sensibility. And for a sense of his playfulness, check out his twitter page:
https://twitter.com/vikramparalkar