The Story of the Madman (CARAF Books)
Contributors: Elizabeth Darnel (Translator)
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Published: September 2001
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9780813920498
Subjects: Modern fiction; General; Fiction - General; Fiction
First sentence: IN THIS CITY where, despite the large population of madmen, there is not a single asylum or hospital willing to admit them, a young man, thirty at most and as naked as they say Adam was in the garden of Eden, wanders daily through the crowded streets or, engrossed in soliloquies punctuated by sporadic and incoherent smiles, rummages mechanically in the refuse from which he gleans his food, clucking continuously.