Perhaps because of my weird obsession with mental illness, perhaps by the time I decided to read this book, "When my life was taking a 180 degree turn, or simply because I chill the veracity of the author, but I have to say this book impressed me greatly.
Alice Gould is admitted to a mental hospital. In his delirium, believed to be a private investigator in charge of a team of detectives dedicated to clarify complicated cases. According to a letter from his physician, the reality is different: his paranoid obsession is endangering the life of her husband. The extreme intelligence of this woman and her attitude apparently normal doctors confused to the point of not knowing for sure whether Alice has been unfairly or have actually entered a serious and dangerous psychological disorder.
Brutal novel about mental illness in which its author, Torcuato Luca de Tena, describes with chilling precision and accuracy to a mental institution from the point of view of a patient-theoretically-sound.
First, before writing the book, and documented, this writer faked his own mental illness and spent 20 days in a manicomnio as one of the patients. This if it does not contribute to the strength of the writing in this book, supporting it with a sad truth.
The book itself is written in simple, direct and precise, leaving a raw and realistic narrative whose quality is reflected in the reality of what is described and the perfectly spinning plot, which makes you doubt from the first to the last page on one end, at least, surprising and unexpected.
The characters, true to the style of Luca de Tena, realistic and relatively shallow: patients with psychiatric cases are real, but also people with feelings and personality, and the nurses and doctors, simple characters more or less important development of the plot.
With the protagonist, Torcuato boasts an ability to description and explanation of the inner world worthy of his earlier book, Pepa Niebla , though rather more briefly, since much of the appeal of this book is the speed with that develop the facts and the factor of the book, for the mean, is short (no more than 200 pages).
In general, a powerful book for its accuracy, interesting and exciting content for its history. A novel that I think everyone should read, at least to be aware of a reality that, like many others, prefer not to know.
Rating: 8 / 10
The crooked lines of God
Torcuato Luca de Tena.
Torcuato Luca de Tena.
Brutal novel about mental illness in which its author, Torcuato Luca de Tena, describes with chilling precision and accuracy to a mental institution from the point of view of a patient-theoretically-sound.
First, before writing the book, and documented, this writer faked his own mental illness and spent 20 days in a manicomnio as one of the patients. This if it does not contribute to the strength of the writing in this book, supporting it with a sad truth.
The book itself is written in simple, direct and precise, leaving a raw and realistic narrative whose quality is reflected in the reality of what is described and the perfectly spinning plot, which makes you doubt from the first to the last page on one end, at least, surprising and unexpected.
The characters, true to the style of Luca de Tena, realistic and relatively shallow: patients with psychiatric cases are real, but also people with feelings and personality, and the nurses and doctors, simple characters more or less important development of the plot.
With the protagonist, Torcuato boasts an ability to description and explanation of the inner world worthy of his earlier book, Pepa Niebla , though rather more briefly, since much of the appeal of this book is the speed with that develop the facts and the factor of the book, for the mean, is short (no more than 200 pages).
In general, a powerful book for its accuracy, interesting and exciting content for its history. A novel that I think everyone should read, at least to be aware of a reality that, like many others, prefer not to know.
Rating: 8 / 10