Flowers for Algernon

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Daniel Keyes: Flowers for Algernon (Hardcover, 1966, Harcourt Brace & World)

Hardcover, 274 pages

English language

Published March 1966 by Harcourt Brace & World.

4 stars (4 reviews)

2 editions

reviewed Flowers for Algernon, Daniel Keyes by Anne Rigg (Heinemann fiction project)

Review of 'Flowers for Algernon, Daniel Keyes' on 'Goodreads'

3 stars

Un tratamiento experimental con el que se convierte a un deficiente mental en un verdadero genio, efectos secundarios incluidos. Lo vemos a través de su cuaderno, en el que le animan a escribir informes: cómo va mejorando la ortografía, la sintaxis, la complejidad de la narración, hasta llegar a cotas de pedantería y sobradismo bastante inaguantables. En paralelo, su evolución psicológica: cómo al despertar deja de aceptar todo como si fueran órdenes y empieza a hacer preguntas incómodas e incluso a rebelarse.

Un texto muy de su tiempo, de cuando la psicología traía grandes promesas y el psicoanálisis iba a resolver casi todo: da casi ternura ver tanto optimismo. Sin llegar a entusiasmarme, me ha parecido bastante solvente.

reviewed Flowers for Algernon, Daniel Keyes by Anne Rigg (Heinemann fiction project)

Review of 'Flowers for Algernon, Daniel Keyes' on 'Goodreads'

5 stars

5/5

'For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.'

'The men of the cave would say of him that up he went and down he came without his eyes...'

It would be easy to liken this book to some play on The Fall of Man or Plato's cave but it would be inappropriate, ironically. I think it's best to take this one simply.

Merged review:

5/5

'For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.'

'The men of the cave would say of him that up he went and down he came without his eyes...'

It would be easy to liken this book to some play on The Fall of Man or Plato's cave but it would be inappropriate, …

reviewed Flowers for Algernon, Daniel Keyes by Anne Rigg (Heinemann fiction project)

Review of 'Flowers for Algernon, Daniel Keyes' on 'Goodreads'

5 stars

I hadn't read Flowers for Algernon since high school, and probably only read the bare minimum of what was required back then. It's a classic, a great book that still holds up today.

Merged review:

I hadn't read Flowers for Algernon since high school, and probably only read the bare minimum of what was required back then. It's a classic, a great book that still holds up today.

Subjects

  • English literature
  • Fiction
  • Study and teaching (Secondary)