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Translated for the first time into English, cult German author Rainald Goetz's debut novel Insane draws upon his clinical psychiatric experience to paint a portrait of the asylum as a total institution. We follow a young psychiatrist, Dr Raspe, who enters the profession dreaming of revolutionising its practices. Confronted by day-to-day practices and the reality of life in the psychiatric hospital, Raspe begins to fray at the edges. The very concept of madness is called into question in a brutal portrayal of patients and psychiatrists and the various treatments administered, from psychotherapy to electroshock therapy. What is madness? And who ... Read more
Translated for the first time into English, cult German author Rainald Goetz's debut novel Insane draws upon his clinical psychiatric experience to paint a portrait of the asylum as a total institution. We follow a young psychiatrist, Dr Raspe, who enters the profession dreaming of revolutionising its practices. Confronted by day-to-day practices and the reality of life in the psychiatric hospital, Raspe begins to fray at the edges. The very concept of madness is called into question in a brutal portrayal of patients and psychiatrists and the various treatments administered, from psychotherapy to electroshock therapy. What is madness? And who ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Fitzcarraldo Editions
Condition
New
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781910695319
SKU
9781910695319
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Ref
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About Rainald Goetz
Rainald Goetz, born in 1954 in Munich, studied History and Medicine in Munich and obtained a doctoral degree in both subjects. He briefly worked as a physician, but quit this profession for the sake of literature in his early thirties. His first novel, INSANE, was published in 1983. In 1998, Goetz wrote the internet diary 'Rubbish for Everyone', probably the ... Read more
Reviews for Insane
`Adrian Nathan West has managed an impressive translation of Mr Goetz's voice - a relentless staccato that can border on the manic... This language accounts for a lot of what makes the book stick in the mind. ... Goetz's eloquent depictions of human misery, and his frustration with the seemingly impossible task of helping those who appear beyond help, continue ... Read more