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Preso dalla foga di voler creare un'eroina romantica, McGrath prende Stella e la trasforma in un coacervo di assurdi pensieri, che di follia hanno ben poco. La protagonista assoluta del romanzo è di una inconsistenza spaventosa: non c'è alcun filo logico nel suo sviluppo narrativo, e non c'è un filo logico nel suo ritratto psicologico.

Find sources: "Asylum"series– news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR ( June 2017) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Dan and his friends, Abby and Jordan, decided to take a road trip the summer after senior year. On their way to visit Jordan's uncle in New Orleans, the friends realize they're being followed and photographed. Dan begins to receive messages from someone who died last Halloween and the strange occurrences only escalate once they reach New Orleans. Dan realizes that the disturbing events that have happened to him might not be coincidence, but fate. His past might be connected to a group called the Bone Artists, who are disturbingly interested in past killers. Dan just hopes he can make it out of this road trip alive with his life. [2] Books [ edit ] Max è un uomo completamente assorbito dal suo lavoro e dalle sue ambizioni; talmente occupato dalla voglia di curare la psiche dei suoi pazienti da non accorgersi di chi gli sta vicino e dei problemi che iniziano a crescere in modo incontrollabile. The Warden (Daniel Crawford): He was the warden at Brookline when it was an asylum. His experiments focused on immortality and he was focused on spreading his "legacy". Ligotti is known more for telling Lovecraftian tales that are connected as much to dreams as they are to curious realities. McGrath is doing something altogether different.After experiencing the mental illness of person close to him first-hand (presumably his first wife who committed suicide in 1964) Goffman remarked this book would have been "very different" had he written it after the experience. [2] See also [ edit ]

Side note: Are all Stellas sexual beings ruled by their animal instincts and the urging of their loins? The primitive, debasing relationship between Stella and Edgar drew a strong parallel to another sexually-charged relationship tinted with domestic violence penned by Tennessee Williams and made forever famous by Marlon Brando. Peter è il principale narratore di questa storia; psichiatra da molti anni nella clinica dove ora si trova Max, ha in cura Edgar. Nonostante voglia apparire distaccato, freddo e professionale, più volte durante la narrazione si lascia andare, dando voce ai suoi sentimenti e alle sue ossessioni più intime: Stella ed Edgar. The book comprises four free-standing essays On the Characteristics of Total Institutions, The Moral Career of the Mental Patient, The Underlife of a Public Institution and The Medical Model and Mental Hospitalization.Asylum is a New York Times bestselling young adult horror novel series by Madeleine Roux. [1] The series is composed of four novels, Asylum, Sanctum, Catacomb, and Escape from Asylum and three novellas: The Scarlets, The Bone Artists, and The Warden. The brilliant interplay of the dialogue, and cast of characters, pulled me in, as well as the intricacies of the plot set up. In 2005, Asylum, was made into a movie. I think it might be better that way because you'd be able to see and feel the passion coming through living, breathing, characters.

Si si lo so, non si dovrebbe mai simpatizzare per il cattivo del libro, ma siamo sicurissimi che sia stato solo lui quello colpevole? Siamo sicuri che Stella sia stata soltanto una vittima plagiata da una mente malata? Ci sono stati dei momenti di tensione, non lo nego, ma altri in cui ho creduto di aver sbagliato libro. And I don’t read romance. Thankfully this wasn’t anything like a romance novel. No detailed descriptions of the acts I love to do, but don’t care to observe others doing. Instead it was a downward spiral of madness, cruelty, obsession and straight up narcissism. McGrath gets to the root of things all humans have experienced and gives nice space to philosophize.

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And then Stella’s treating psychologist wants to marry her when her treatment is done? Perhaps if he kept his mind out of his own pants and actually concentrated on Stella he wouldn’t have been too late in the end. Stella obviously needs help, but all the men in this book are trying so hard to either get in her pants or contribute to her misery, she doesn’t get what she ultimately needs. And she must submit to them, even if it's not what she wants. This leads me to my next point.......... Asylum starts off rekindling the fires of a prose I'm immediately drawn to, even though its conclusion was more like a slowgoing moth to a flame. The series follows sixteen-year-old Dan Crawford, who was chosen to attend a prestigious college preparatory summer program in New Hampshire. Once there he befriends two other teens, Abby and Jordan, with whom he explores an old psychiatric hospital that has been re-purposed into a student dormitory. However, what they find ends up drawing them into old and disturbing recurring events. In the way, they will uncover the secrets that link them to the terrifying things that happen inside the Asylum walls. Cleave is narrating the novel, yes, but he is doing so after discussions with Stella, after something has apparently gone badly wrong, and the impending sense of doom only adds to the novel's complexity. Not that Asylum is a mystery. It isn't. Edgar murdered his wife. He escapes from the asylum. Stella goes to him. Nothing surprising here. When Edgar begins exhibiting erratic behavior, though, she runs. However, the story doesn't take the reader into the places you'd think it would. Stella is not repentant. Instead, she feels torn from her lover and sorrowful that she ever suspected his behavior. Willing, even after knowing the full extent of his crime, to go to him and be with him, and Cleave notes this:

Questo libro è ossessione; carne che si scuote di dosso le convenzioni per vestirsi di inganni, di violenze e di bugie. Ma anche di gelide indifferenza, di sotterfugi e fughe nella notte talvolta abnorme e poi improvvisamente claustrofobica. Follia, follia, follia sono diventata folle io qua? Non dico che non mi sia piaciuto, alla fine credo di averlo letto anche mentre dormivo ed ho bruciato pure le melanzane, ma niente....Stella mi è stata sulle balle quasi da subito e pure la voce narrante di Peter, viscida ed egocentrica, era bravo solo lui praticamente.McGrath's Asylum is an elegant novel. Gothic and dark, it explores the nature of love and obsession as well as mental illness. The novel is, in many ways, timeless, and particularly, it was some time before I could have stated with any assurance the time period in which Asylum is set. Late 1950s, to be exact. Psychiatrist Peter Cleave tells a supposedly sordid tale of a former patient, love affairs gone terribly wrong, sexual obsession and madness but alas he’s such a boring fellow the story has no emotional appeal, no sense of drama, and no interesting tidbits to savor and drool over. He skims over the good stuff and me, being the fool I am, continued to read waiting for my interest to become engaged and hoping to feel something for these screwed up people. Alas, I remain a fool. I think it's writers like McGrath that can more commonly write books that are either a huge hit or miss. A contrast to author's who's expectant style is always comfortably familiar, full of characters and a world that are always there for you to sit down with, just like old familiar friends sitting in your living room watching TV with you...and so it's a no-brainer you can rest easy and enjoy. Ho empatizzato solo con Edgrar alla fine e qui però mi faccio un paio di domande io :"tutto bene Laura? Sicura di aver capito che cos'ha fatto Edgar alla ex moglie?" La sua identificazione con Edgar diventava ogni giorno più profonda. Mi disse che stava assumendo consapevolmente tutti i suoi gusti, le sue idee, i suoi sentimenti.