An edition of O alienista (1981)

The alienist

and other stories of Nineteenth-century Brazil

by , , , and

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An edition of O alienista (1981)

The alienist

and other stories of Nineteenth-century Brazil

by , , , and

  • ★★★★ 4.11 ·
  • 9 Ratings
  • 43 Want to read
  • 2 Currently reading
  • 8 Have read

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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Hackett Publishing
Language
English
Pages
125

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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, Brazil
Times
19th century

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The alienist: and other stories of Nineteenth-century Brazil
2013, Hackett Publishing
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O Alienista
1998, Editora Atica, Rua Bardo de laguape, SP
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Table of Contents

Introduction: Brazil's machado, machado's Brazil
To be twenty years old
The education of a poser
The looking glass
Chapter on hats
A singular occurrence
Terpsichore
Father against mother
The alienist.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 124-125).

Published in
Indianapolis, Cambridge
Translated From
Portuguese

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
869.3/3
Library of Congress
PQ9697.M18 A7313 2013, PQ9697.M18A7313 2013

The Physical Object

Pagination
xxiii, 125p.
Number of pages
125

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OL30660494M
Internet Archive
alienistothersto0000mach
ISBN 13
9781603848534, 9781603848527
LCCN
2012036479
OCLC/WorldCat
811337448

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