Psychiatrist

Author: Machado de Assis
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Publish Date: 2004-03-01
Features: The six short stories included in this book, such as "The Psychologist," "The Mirror," "A Famous Person," "The Inner Cause," "The Male Nurse," and "The Father Pursues the Mother," are selected from three renowned short story collections: "Various Stories," "Scattered Papers," and "Relics of an Old House." These works provide different reflections on the emotions and fundamental moral issues referred to by Spanish philosopher José Ortega y Gasset as the "giants of the soul" (such as in "The Male Nurse" and "The Father Pursues the Mother"). Machado's stories often explore themes like jealousy, vanity, decline, and the imbalance of a benevolent mind (such as in "The Psychologist" and "The Inner Cause"). Like the works of Dostoevsky, Flaubert, and Balzac, Machado's writings are comprehensive. Reading such works can inspire us to understand how people behave when facing difficulties and the twists of life as society operates under relentless laws.