The Madness of Doctor Montarco (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Miguel de Unamuno y Jugo
- First Published: 1904
- Type of Plot: Antistory
- Time of Work: About 1900
- Setting: Spain
- Principal Characters: Dr. Montarco, Don Servando Fernández Gómez, The narrator, Dr. Atienza
- Genres: Short fiction, Antistory
- Subjects: Twentieth century, Doctors, Mental illness, Jesus Christ, Spain or Spanish people
- Locales: Spain
The Story
The narrator introduces Dr. Montarco as a competent physician who is admired and trusted by his patients. The trust begins to waver when it is observed that the doctor is a writer who eschews the composition of medical treatises in favor of writing strange and fanciful fiction. He ignores the objections of his clientele and rejects dissuasion by the narrator. His patients begin to desert him. This happened once before; the doctor, with his wife and two pre-teenage daughters, had to leave his native town when his practice dwindled because of his professional...
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Miguel de Unamuno y Jugo (Cyclopedia of World Authors)Miguel de Unamuno y Jugo (Poetry)Miguel de Unamuno y Jugo (Long Fiction)Miguel de Unamuno y Jugo (Short Fiction)Miguel de Unamuno y Jugo (Drama)Miguel de Unamuno y Jugo (World Philosophers)Miguel de Unamuno y Jugo (Ethics)Theory of Short Fiction (Topical Overview--Short Fiction)