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A carregar... The Silent Patient (edição 2019)por Alex Michaelides (Autor)
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Adira ao LibraryThing para descobrir se irá gostar deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. The Silent Patient is an interesting read. I like how it showed the mental illness of the characters and what happens when things they depend on let them down. The second half, however, fell a bit flat for me, as I lost some interest in what was happening to the story and the characters. Even though I didn't love all of it, The Silent Patient has a great perspective. I'm glad that I read the book and I would read more by the author. I have mixed feelings about The Silent Patient. On the one hand, the writing is pretty average, the dialogue is often hokey, not to mention the tired old tropes around psychiatry and psychology. On the other, I seem to have read it in a couple of days and I genuinely didn't see The Twist coming. A Twist, yes. But not That Twist. Des de bon començament la cita de l'obra d'Eurípides "Alcestis" ja ens dona la pista del nus de la narració, però el desenllaç final és sorprenent, malgrat el mite d'Alcestis està present tota l'estona, el gir de les darreres 20 darreres pàgines és inesperat. Tinc ganes de parlar amb algun terapeuta per saber si realment es dona la transferència entre el malalt i el pacient i si la metodologia és realment eficaç o bé el terapeuta es carrega amb els problemes del pacient i és o no capaç de deslliurar-se'n. De fet aquest terapeuta que descriu la novel·la evidentment no és capaç de ser una persona equilibrada tot i els anys de teràpia que ha seguit., no ha aconseguit resoldre el seu problema primigeni. En Theo Faver no ha pogut superar el maltractament infringit pel seu pare durant la infantesa. Aquesta gran frustració que sent per no sentir-se estimat fa que davant la infidelitat de la seva esposa, ja d'adult, no no pugui reaccionar com una persona normal i tot acabi amb una gran tragèdia (grega). L'Alícia tampoc ha superat el seu trauma infantil, les paraules del seu pare després de l'accident de la seva mare la condemnen per sempre més. Però ella no ha seguit una teràpia mèdica, la pintura ha esta per ella la seva pròpia teràpia de salvació. Però en repetir-se per part del seu marit Guillem la condemna a mort fa que tot exploti. Novel·la entretinguda que es llegeix fàcilment.
Meet the hottest-tipped debut novelists of 2019 The Silent Patient is narrated by Theo Faber, a psychotherapist determined to discover why Alicia Berenson, a famous artist accused of murdering her husband, has refused to speak since her husband’s death. The therapeutic setting was inspired by Michaelides’s own experience. “Therapy is very important to me and has been a major part of my life,” he says. Running through the novel is the Greek myth of Alcestis, and Euripides’s play of the same name. The Alcestis theme is perhaps one of the reasons that The Silent Patient is finding such traction both among early readers and the tranche of movie executives who fought to option it. With its story of female sacrifice and the silencing of a woman post-trauma, it feels highly relevant in a post #MeToo world. “It’s about silence as a weapon,” Michaelides says. “And it was very clear in my head when I was writing the book that Alicia was surrounded by these men who were imprisoning her. Like Alcestis, Alicia is trapped and she’s denied a voice. It’s a lifetime of being made to think that she wasn’t worthy, she wasn’t good enough, and maybe that’s something that a lot of women [readers] have been responding to.” The novel has already been optioned by Brad Pitt’s production company, Plan B, with Michaelides due to write the screenplay, a fitting circularity for a novelist who has spent the past 15 years working as a screenwriter. PrémiosDistinctionsNotable Lists
Alicia Berenson's life is seemingly perfect. A famous painter married to an in-demand fashion photographer, she lives in a grand house with big windows overlooking a park in one of London's most desirable areas. One evening her husband Gabriel returns home late from a fashion shoot, and Alicia shoots him five times in the face, and then never speaks another word. Alicia's refusal to talk or give any kind of explanation turns a domestic tragedy into something far grander, a mystery that captures the public imagination and casts Alicia into notoriety. The price of her art skyrockets, and she, the silent patient, is hidden away from the spotlight of the tabloids at the Grove, a secure forensic unit in North London. Theo Faber is a criminal psychotherapist who has waited a long time for the opportunity to work with Alicia. His search for the truth leads him down a terrifying path and threatens to consume him. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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Psychotherapist, Theo Faber is on a mission to make Alicia speak. He tracks down and questions key people in her life to help him find out everything he can about her past, what makes her tick and anything that might trigger some kind of reaction from her during therapy.
Alicia Berenson starts to keep a diary on the 14th July to keep her husband Gabriel happy. Gabriel dies on the 25th August. They had been married for seven years.
The truckload of twists and turns, the curved balls, false starts and dead ends had my head spinning on this rollercoaster ride of a read while the dual perspective and different timelines upped the ante. Who can be trusted? Who can be believed?
I jotted down notes as I was reading The Silent Patient in an attempt to stay on the case, it was that kind of book. I took five shots at the ending. They were all way off the mark. The last 50 pages were like no other. Yes! No! Really? Oh my goodness. And breathe.
Exhilarating, extraordinary and nail-biting, The Silent Patient is one of a kind. ( )