I, Pierre Riviére, Having Slaughtered My Mother, My Sister, and My Brother: A Case of Parricide in the 19th Century
To free his father and himself from his mother's tyranny, Pierre Riviere decided to kill her. On June 3,1835, he went inside his small Normandy house with a pruning hook and cut to death his mother, his eighteen-year-old sister, and his seven-year-old brother. Then, in jail, he wrote a memoir to justify the whole gruesome tale. Michel Foucault, author of Madness and Civilization and Discipline and Punish, collected the relevant documents of the case, including medical and legal testimony, police records. and Riviere's memoir. The Riviere case, he points out, occurred at a time when many professions were contending for status and power. Medica…
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Weitere Autoren: Jellinek, Frank (Übers.)
- ISBN: 978-0-8032-6857-9
- EAN: 9780803268579
- Produktnummer: 19335346
- Verlag: Univ Of Nebraska Pr
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1982
- Seitenangabe: 288 S.
- Masse: H20.3 cm x B13.5 cm x D1.8 cm 327 g
- Gewicht: 327
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