The ​Alienist (Dr. Laszló Kreizler 1.) 7 csillagozás

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The ​year is 1896, the place, New York City. On a cold March night New York Times reporter John Schuyler Moore is summoned to the East River by his friend and former Harvard classmate Dr. Laszlo Kreizler, a psychologist, or „alienist.” On the unfinished Williamsburg Bridge, they view the horribly mutilated body of an adolescent boy, a prostitute from one of Manhattan's infamous brothels.

The newly appointed police commissioner, Theodore Roosevelt, in a highly unorthodox move, enlists the two men in the murder investigation, counting on the reserved Kreizler's intellect and Moore's knowledge of New York's vast criminal underworld. They are joined by Sara Howard, a brave and determined woman who works as a secretary in the police department. Laboring in secret (for alienists, and the emerging discipline of psychology, are viewed by the public with skepticism at best), the unlikely team embarks on what is a revolutionary effort in criminology-- amassing a… (tovább)

Eredeti megjelenés éve: 1994

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Caleb Carr: The Alienist

Rendben volt. A tizenkilencedik század végének New Yorkjáról nagyon szerettem olvasni, a korai pszichológia és kriminalisztika borzasztóan érdekes – de az emberi vonal, a karakterek egyáltalán nem fogtak meg. Kicsit sablonszerűen sherlockholmes-os volt a főszereplő és jellegtelen a sidekick. Kár értük.


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Prior to the twentieth century, persons suffering from mental illness were thought to be „alienated”, not only from the rest of society but from their own true natures. Those experts who studied mental pathologies were therefore known as alienists.

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