The alienist
and other stories of Nineteenth-century Brazil
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Author
Contributions
- Chasteen, John Charles, 1955- - Contributor
Publication
2013 - Hackett Publishing, Indianapolis, Indiana
Language
English
Word Count
31,250 words, Guess
Page Count
125 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL30660494M
- ISBN-139781603848534
- OCLC Control Number811337448
- OCLC Control Numberalienistothersto0000mach
- Library of Congress Control Number2012036479
Classifications
- DDC869.3/3
- LCCPQ9697.M18 A7313 2013
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.
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