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Original Title:	O Alienista
ISBN:	0850515068 (ISBN13: 9780850515060)
Edition Language:	Portuguese
Characters:	Simão Bacamarte, Dona Evarista, Crispim Soares, Padre Lopes, Porfírio
Setting:	Itaguaí(Brazil)

O Alienista

Machado de Assis

Paperback | Pages: 56 pages

Rating: 4.07 | 8201 Users | 366 Reviews

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Title	:	O Alienista
Author	:	Machado de Assis
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 56 pages
Published	:	August 2nd 2006 by Luso-Brazilian Books (first published 1881)
Categories	:	Fiction. Classics. Cultural. Brazil. Literature

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Clássico da literatura brasileira, este texto de Machado de Assis continua sendo, cento e trinta anos depois de sua publicação original, uma das mais devastadoras observações sobre a insanidade a que pode chegar a ciência. Tão palpitante quanto de leitura prazerosa, O alienista é uma dessas joias da ficção da literatura mundial. Médico, Simão Bacamarte passa a se interessar pela psiquiatria, iniciando um estudo sobre a loucura em Itaguaí, onde funda a Casa Verde - um típico hospício oitocentista -, arregimentando cobaias humanas para seus experimentos. O que se segue é uma história surpreendente e atual em seu debate sobre desvios e normalidade, loucura e razão.

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read twice.The surface story here is great, but it's what's underneath that really speaks volumes.The first few pages of this novella did not at all prepare me for what was going to come next, and continuing on, I reached the point where it felt like I was seriously entering the theater of the absurd. The story on the surface is this: one doctor in a small town in Brazil undertakes the study of mental illness, sets himself up as the expert, and proceeds to have an asylum built in the town. He

Till now, madness has been thought a small island in an ocean of sanity. I am beginning to suspect that it is not an island at all but a continent.Each of us are wired differently and set forth out into the world with our own baggage of experiences and perspectives, our own unique defects and demons, to interact with one another. Celebrated Brazilian author Machado de Assis 1882 novella The Alienist investigates the lines where normality and quirkiness tip over into the category of madness,

Machado de Assis for me is one of the best Brazilian story-tellers. The novella The Alienist deals with the issue of sanity. Who is crazy and who is not? That is the central question in this story. Is Dr. Bacamarte himself sane? Till now, madness has been thought a small island in an ocean of sanity. I am beginning to suspect that it is not an island at all but a continent. Read and enjoy. Recommended.

SIX WORD REVIEW: Insanity is the belief in answers.

I spent more than a month trying to read this book and its less than 80 pages. Oh well

The initial premise of The Alienist is speaking for itself: an established physician in old-time Brazil strives to contribute to the budding field of psychology, and so searches for the true definition of madness to fill his newly opened insane asylum. Building the foundations of a new science is not easy, and it takes Dr. Simão Bacamarte several more or less disastrous attempts before getting it "right". The ending is predictable, but satisfying. But this is a story just as much about

Sanity is a subject I've grown increasingly interested in as I've gotten older. I used to see it as a black and white matter. Some people are sane, others insane. Easy as that. This was a cozy idea of mine as a child at least. I kept far away from the black sheep of my family - an ancient great aunt with a lifetime's wake of miserable holiday antics due to her undiagnosed narcissism - and I got used to what I perceived was textbook sanity. Although I do remember once in middle school miserably