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"O alienista" (translated as "The Psychiatrist" then "The Alienist") is a satiric novella written by the Brazilian author Machado de Assis (1839–1908).
THE PSYCHIATRIST (O Alienista) by Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, 1882. Like his novels, Machado de Assis's stories can be divided into early and late periods. Papéis avulsos (Odd Papers), the first of the mature collections, appeared in 1882, one year after Epitaph of a Small Winner (Bráz Cubas) .
Complete summary of Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis' The Psychiatrist. eNotes plot summaries cover all the significant action of The Psychiatrist.
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Though uncommonly long for a Brazilian short story, “The Psychiatrist” is an example of Machado de Assis’s skill as an illusionist. The story is ostensibly drawn from a documentary source, the...
Jul 30, 2019 · The psychiatrist, and other stories. by. Machado de Assis, 1839-1908. Publication date. 1963. Publisher. Berkeley, University of California Press. Collection. trent_university; internetarchivebooks; printdisabled.
Jun 1, 2000 · Was the psychiatrist insane from the beginning, or did he become insane when he was committed to his own institution? Was he experimenting on everyone including himself on the cause and cure of insanity, even if this meant that the people were striped from their lives in general?
- Joaquim Maria Machado De Assis
