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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 methods. 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 is truly mad? Diving headlong into a terrifying and oppressive world, Insane is a veritable journey into the madhouse by one of Germany's most prominent and contentious authors.
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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 doctor, 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 first literary blog in Germany, with entries on the world of media and consumerism. It was published in book form in 1999 and together with Rave, Jeff Koons, Celebration and Deconspiration belongs to This Morning, his great history of the present. Goetz has been awarded numerous prizes, most notably the Georg Büchner Prize in 2015. He lives in Berlin.
Adrian Nathan West is the author of The Aesthetics of Degradation and translator of such authors as Pere Gimferrer, Juan Benet, Marianne Fritz, and Josef Winkler. His writings appear regularly in the Times Literary Supplement, Los Angeles Review of Books, the Literary Review, and many other publications.
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Insane Rainald Goetz Insane, Rainald Goetz's first novel, and the first to be translated into English, draws upon Goetz's clinical psychiatric experience to paint a portrait of the asylum as a total institution, to use Erving Goffman's celebrated term. It follows the protagonist, Doctor Raspe, a reference to Jan-Carl Raspe, one of the conspirators in the notorious Baader-Meinhof gang, through three long chapters. The first, 'Disengagement', consists of loosely organized conversations with asylum workers and inmates that offer a sense of the inner experience of the asylum environment; the second, 'Within', is a linear narrative of the doctor's experience inside of the asylum, weaving together many of the episodes that had appeared earlier in the book and detailing the slow collapse of the doctor's inner defense mechanisms; while the third section, 'Order', blends collages, cartoons, and images from newspapers and textbooks, allowing Raspe's narrative to finally collapse
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ISBN 10 : 1910695319
ISBN 13 : 9781910695319
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Etat : gut. 2017. Insane, Rainald Goetz's first novel, and the first to be translated into English, draws upon Goetz's clinical psychiatric experience to paint a portrait of the asylum as a total institution, to use Erving Goffman's celebrated term. It follows the protagonist, Doctor Raspe, a reference to Jan-Carl Raspe, one of the conspirators in the notorious Baader-Meinhof gang, through three long chapters. The first, 'Disengagement', consists of loosely organized conversations with asylum workers and inmates that offer a sense of the inner experience of the asylum environment; the second, 'Within', is a linear narrative of the doctor's experience inside of the asylum, weaving together many of the episodes that had appeared earlier in the book and detailing the slow collapse of the doctor's inner defense mechanisms; while the third section, 'Order', blends collages, cartoons, and images from newspapers and textbooks, allowing Raspe's narrative to finally collapse Insane Rainald Goetz EAN (ISBN-13): 9781910695319 ISBN (ISBN-10): 1910695319 Erscheinungsjahr: 2017 Herausgeber: Fitzcarraldo Editions ISBN/EAN: 1910695319 ISBN: 1-910695-31-9, 978-1-910695-31-9 In englischer Sprache. pages. N° de réf. du vendeur BN261232
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