The Alienist
Doctor Simão Bacamarte comes home from Coimbra to the town of Itaguaí, builds an asylum he names the Green House, and starts committing the eccentric, then the merely odd, then four fifths of the population, revising his criterion for reason every time the data disagree with him. The council, the barber's rebellion and his own wife are all processed by the same logic. Scientific rationalism carried out to its conclusion.
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