a woman, private detective, has to enter a psychiatric center to resolve a case. The only way to get in is by pretending to be crazy. But how do you prove to the doctors your true purpose and that you are really sane?? Your intelligence, his british upbringing, cultural level, elegance… They can confuse and convince doctors that she is a healthy woman or that all of this is a mask to hide her illness.? This is the zig-zag route of the novel, that can only be resolved by reading one more page and another, and another one… until the last one where the truth about the disease or not is resolved, of the patient.
Torcuato Luca de Tena, Planet of the year award 1961, said publisher publishes him in 1979 “The crooked lines of God”, currently in edition 14. The fact of reading a book by a collaborator of the old regime made me a little sick., but as soon as I started the novel I was hooked. And it doesn't have any cheesy tinge., todo lo contrario, The atmosphere of the center is described in all crudeness and how shocking it is for the protagonist..
I assume that the novel is conceived a few years before its publication., Therefore, it must be taken into account that at that time the asylums were far from urban centers and very aggressive therapies were practiced that are currently completely obsolete.. Nowadays, psychiatric centers have been absorbed into the urban fabric and modern therapies are put into practice.; In the novel you can already see timid changes.
I read this book a long time ago and now I want to read it again..