2013, ISBN: 9781480426504

';The mental asylum is an apartment building for saints. These poor foolish crazies are saints beneath their Chinese sheets, their mass-produced shrouds. The nun is a saint; the nightligh… Altro …

';The mental asylum is an apartment building for saints. These poor foolish crazies are saints beneath their Chinese sheets, their mass-produced shrouds. The nun is a saint; the nightlight on her bedside table makes her glow like an ex-voto. The doctor is the biggest saint of them all. He's the head saint. He's Jesus Christ.'Thus Nicola recounts his thirty-five years in the ';electric asylum. ';The mental asylum is an apartment building for saints. These poor foolish crazies are saints beneath their Chinese sheets, their mass-produced shrouds. The nun is a saint; the nightlight on her bedside table makes her glow like an ex-voto. The doctor is the biggest saint of them all. He's the head saint. He's Jesus Christ.'Thus Nicola recounts his thirty-five years in the ';electric asylum.' Reality and fantasy clash in his disordered mind, resulting in unpredictable revelations. This book and the theatrical monologue of the same name are the fruit of the nearly four years Ascanio Celestini spent traveling through Italy listening to and recording stories about psychiatric hospitals. Thanks to the oral histories and recollections of nurses, doctors, and patients, he realized not only that the institution of the mental asylum is still in functiondespite groundbreaking 1978 Italian legislation geared toward the gradual and total dismantling of this systembut also that the anguish and fears of the ';crazies' are still very much alive within us all. And it is for this that the phantasmagoric stories told in this book are capable of moving us to laughter and to tears. eBooks, Fiction~~Modern & Contemporary, Black Sheep~~EBook~~9781480426504~~Ascanio Celestini, , Black Sheep, Ascanio Celestini, 9781480426504, Mondadori, 08/27/2013, , , , Mondadori<

ISBN: 9781480426504

He says the institute is an apartment building. . . . It's an apartment building for saints. . . . These poor foolish crazies are saints beneath their Chinese sheets, their mass-produced … Altro …

He says the institute is an apartment building. . . . It's an apartment building for saints. . . . These poor foolish crazies are saints beneath their Chinese sheets, their mass-produced shrouds. The nun is a saint; the night-light on her bedside table makes her glow like an ex-voto. The doctor is the biggest saint of them all. He's the head saint. He's Jesus Christ. Thus Nicola recounts his thirty-five years in the electric asylum. Reality and fantasy clash in his disordered mind, resulting in unpredictable revelations. This book and the theatrical monologue of the same name are the fruits of the nearly four years that Ascanio Celestini spent traveling through Italy listening to and recording stories about psychiatric hospitals. Thanks to the oral histories and recollections of nurses, doctors, and patients, he realized not only that the institution of the mental asylum is still runningdespite groundbreaking 1978 Italian legislation geared toward the gradual and total dismantling of this systembut also that the anguish and fears of the crazies are still very much alive within us all. And it is for this reason that these phantasmagoric stories are capable of moving us to laughter and to tears. Fiction Fiction eBook, The Mondadori Group<

ISBN: 9781480426504

A Funeral Eulogy for the Electric Asylum He says the institute is an apartment building. . . . `It`s an apartment building for saints. . . . These poor foolish crazies are saints beneath … Altro …

A Funeral Eulogy for the Electric Asylum He says the institute is an apartment building. . . . `It`s an apartment building for saints. . . . These poor foolish crazies are saints beneath their Chinese sheets, their mass-produced shrouds. The nun is a saint the night-light on her bedside table makes her glow like an ex-voto. The doctor is the biggest saint of them all. He`s the head saint. He`s Jesus Christ.` Black Sheep: He says the institute is an apartment building. . . . `It`s an apartment building for saints. . . . These poor foolish crazies are saints beneath their Chinese sheets, their mass-produced shrouds. The nun is a saint the night-light on her bedside table makes her glow like an ex-voto. The doctor is the biggest saint of them all. He`s the head saint. He`s Jesus Christ.`, Mondadori<

ISBN: 9781480426504

The Black Sheep: A Funeral Eulogy for the Electric Asylum The-Black-Sheep~~Ascanio-Celestini Fiction>Fiction>Fiction NOOK Book (eBook), Einaudi

ISBN: 9781480426504

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