Tell Me Something beautiful and perfect object, and sadistic voyeurism, which stems from the fear of castration" (Kim, 107). Soo-yeon's father derives fetishistic pleasure from making the young Soo-yeon stand for painting and photographing her. Her college acquaintance and stalker also photographs her to build a shrine, and Detective Jo repeatedly gazes at her via surveillance camera. The painting that scared Su-Yeon as a child and appears over the opening credits is a recreation of "The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp" by Rembrandt, which in turn references "De humani corporis fabrica", recalling the anatomy theater of the Renaissance. Kim writes that "Tell
The Anatomy Lesson (Roth novel) of nostalgia and ambition, Zuckerman resolves to return to the University of Chicago, his alma mater, in order to pursue medical school. "The Anatomy Lesson" is the least well-received of the Zuckerman trilogy "Zuckerman Bound", though the book was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the National Book Award. In "The Observer" in 1984, Martin Amis wrote, "'The Anatomy Lesson' may be the third and final installment of the Zuckerman trilogy, but it is also Roth's second consecutive novel about what success is like. Such fixity!... He has now written two autobiographical novels about the consequences