After Vincent van Gogh suffered attacks in Arles that he believed to be epilepsy, he voluntarily admitted himself to Maison de Santé Saint Paul in Saint Rémy de Provence, a psychiatric institution.
This time, the lives of two patients: the novel Il male che non c’`e, (The Evil That Is Not There) is about a young hypochondriac, the film Nino is about a young man of almost the same age who is suddenly diagnosed with throat cancer. NovelIl male che non c’`e, (The Evil That Is Not …
In eight episodes, we have reviewed all kinds of literary and medically relevant places in Lisbon. Although this collection can always be expanded later, in this – for now final – episode about Lisbon, we will briefly focus on a few places in Lisbon that are also worth visiting and – we will start with this – on two writers who repeatedly appear in the works of the writers already discussed: Luis de Camões and Eça de Queirós.
Writing about Arles and Vincent van Gogh is actually a bit like closing the barn door after the horse has bolted. There is already a description of the places he stayed there in the form of a walking tour. All you have to do is follow these stones.
FilmDas Verschwinden des Josef Mengele, now in theaters In 2017, the novel Le disparation de Josef Mengele by author Olivier Guez was published (published in Dutch in 2018). A fantastic book about how Josef Mengele, the infamous Auschwitz doctor, managed to evade justice despite constant persecution with the help of aliases, family, and “alte Kameraden” …
In this episode: how one person’s life can mean death for another (the film Voor de meisjes (For the Girls); a racist who, at the end of her life, has to deal with a black caregiver (the novel Binnenrijm van bloed [Blood’s inner rhyme ); a hospital on rails (the documentary Salamatty Kazakhstan); and a film about a serious epidemic that leaves its mark on subsequent generations (Alpha).