The eye of Goliath
In 1920s Edinburgh, war veteran Dr. Edward Pierce develops experimental therapies to treat mentally ill patients whose cases have been rejected by conventional psychiatry. One night, he receives a visitor who asks him to take on an unusual new patient: David Bradley, an engineer who was sent to insp...
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English Spanish |
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Pushkin Press,
2026.
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| Summary: | In 1920s Edinburgh, war veteran Dr. Edward Pierce develops experimental therapies to treat mentally ill patients whose cases have been rejected by conventional psychiatry. One night, he receives a visitor who asks him to take on an unusual new patient: David Bradley, an engineer who was sent to inspect the conditions of a lighthouse on a remote island in southern Argentina. The sojourn was a disaster, and he returned completely mute, his body overwhelmed by a single compulsion: to swim and swim, in any environment, to the point of total exhaustion. Bradley's fragmentary diary reveals how this rational, disciplined man became the deranged individual brought to the sanatorium. Full of bizarre details and echoes of macabre events, it guides Pierce in his studies of his patients, propelling him into scientific terrain that grows increasingly grotesque. |
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| Item Description: | Originally published in Spanish as El ojo de Goliat ; Buenos Aires : Editorial Entropía, 2022. |
| Physical Description: | 188 pages ; 20 cm |
| ISBN: | 9781805680369 1805680366 |
| Author Notes: | Rahul Bery translates from Spanish & Portuguese to English, and is based in Cardiff. He has translated books by David Trueba, Simone Campos and Michel Nieva and his translations have also appeared in Granta , the TLS , the Stinging Fly , Words Without Borders , Freeman's and elsewhere. |
