An edition of O Alienista (1981)
The alienist
and other stories of Nineteenth-century Brazil
By Machado de Assis
Publish Date
2013
Publisher
Hackett Publishing
Language
eng
Pages
100
Description:
Who's crazy? This is the question proposed in this book. In this narrative, Machado de Assis tells the story of the eminent Dr. Simão Bacamarte. Dedicated scholar of the human mind, the doctor decides to build a ' Green House '-a mental hospital to treat the mentally ill in the small town of Itaguaí. Machado leads to its history and maintains that everything is relative and that normality is not always what the science and the facts attest to absolute form.
subjects: conto, Fiction, general, Language and languages, study and teaching, Fiction, Social life and customs, Translations into English, Brazilian Short stories, History, Brazil, fiction, Psychiatrists, Short stories, brazilian, Short stories, brazilian--translations into english, Pq9697.m18 a7313 2013, 869.3/3
People: Machado de Assis (1839-1908)
Places: Itaguaí
Times: 19th century