by Machado de Assis · tapa dura · ISBN 9788422678168
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The Alienist is a short novel by Brazilian author Machado de Assis, published in 1882. The story follows Dr. Simão Bacamarte, a psychiatrist who founds a mental hospital in Brazil and becomes obsessed with finding the cure for madness, leading him to conduct increasingly bizarre and controversial experiments on his patients. The novel is a satire of science, society, and the human condition, and explores themes such as reason, madness, power, and identity.
Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, sometimes called Bruxo do Cosme Velho, was a pioneer Brazilian novelist, poet, playwright and short story writer, widely regarded as the greatest writer of Brazilian literature. In 1897, he founded and became the first President of the Brazilian Academy of Letters. He was multilingual, having taught himself French, English, German and Greek later in life.
