O Alienista

O Alienista

1881 • 112 pages

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Average rating3.8

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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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February 11, 2020

O livro tem bons personagens e é gostoso e agradável de se ler. A história de cada "alienado" apresentado foi interessante, além de que a trama é bastante divertida, incluindo o final que foi um tanto quanto impressionante.

É um bom livro.

January 29, 2024

“Verdade é que, se todos os gostos fossem iguais, o que seria do amarelo?“

May 25, 2022

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