My first book

I was watching a video about how in a certain telenovela, all the books one of the characters would read had some correlation to the plot. Among them was O Alienista, by Machado de Assis. I love this book, it was my first classical reading and therefore has a special place in my heart. So I decided to talk a little about it. Yes, yes, it was my first classical book, not my first book, but I think this title sounds nicer. Anyway. The book. What is it about? Simão Bacamarte is one of the greatest doctors of his time. Holding great prestige in Brasil and Portugal. However, as a man of science, he decides to dedicate himself to the (at the time) unexplored area of medicine. The mind. For that, he returns from Europe to Brasil and creates the Green House, a place where he could study and treat people afflicted with madness. But in a such a vast and untouched field, how does one know where madness starts and human nature ends? The first time I read it, I didn’t understand much. Mostly…