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- The Good Doctor Guillotin
The Good Doctor Guillotin
Author:
Marc Estrin
The Good Doctor Guillotin follows five characters to a common destination the scaffold at the first guillotining of the French Revolution: Dr. Guillotin, of course, a physician and member of the National Assembly, involved in many important events, including the Tennis Court Oath. Nicolas Pelletier, the first victim or patient as they were somet
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imes called, since the new beheading machine was seen as a humanitarian medical intervention in the state s technique of dealing death. Father Pierre, the curé who accompanies Pelletier in his last days, a man torn between his religious commitment, and an equally strong commitment to the poor and their revolution. Sanson, the famous executioner of Paris who, 9 months later would execute the king and retire from remorse. Tobias Schmidt, builder of the new machine, a German piano maker working in Paris, a freethinker predicting the Terror that will follow, but allowing himself to initiate it. The revolution, after all, had reduced the sale of pianos. Various other interesting figures briefly appear: Damiens, Mozart, Mesmer, Louis XVI, the Marquis de Sade, Marat, Robespierre, Demoulins among them. The eighteenth century narrative is divided into several sections, each introduced by an essay in the author s voice, the first on five-ness and Pentagons; a second on hope and Utopia; a third on revolutionary violence; and a fourth on capital punishment. This is no historical novel. It is, rather, a fictive meditation on a contemporary conundrum using an eighteenth century drum.
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ISBN-13:
9781932961850
ISBN-10:
1932961852
Publication Date:
9/29/2009
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352
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