ISBN: 9786074299670

After murdering several prostitutes and burying them in the garden of his house, Goyo Cárdenas was judged as a mental sick person and confined in the hospital of The Castañeda. … Más…

After murdering several prostitutes and burying them in the garden of his house, Goyo Cárdenas was judged as a mental sick person and confined in the hospital of The Castañeda. Memoirs of an Abnormal Lunatic examines this serial killer's figure as a cultural product governed by the social imaginary. At the same time, it analyzes the ideological frame and the media bombing that build the image of criminals. Sustained by a solid investigation, the author depicts the cultural context After murdering several prostitutes and burying them in the garden of his house, Goyo Cárdenas was judged as a mental sick person and confined in the hospital of The Castañeda. Memoirs of an Abnormal Lunatic examines this serial killer's figure as a cultural product governed by the social imaginary. At the same time, it analyzes the ideological frame and the media bombing that build the image of criminals. Sustained by a solid investigation, the author depicts the cultural context in which the facts occurred and discloses the official speech that governed the time, the errors in the psychiatric diagnoses, as well as a deep curiosity for this criminal's private life. It also exposes the mechanisms of the morbid fascination promoted by the methodical descriptions of the press and analyzes the form in which those elements built an urban myth that condensed the fears of the society of his time. In the same way, the criminal acts of Goyo Cárdenas and his later reincorporation to society transformed him into an obliged reference of the collective memory. Memorias de un loco anormal examina la figura de este asesino serial como un producto cultural que se rige por el imaginario colectivo. Al mismo tiempo, analiza el marco ideológico y el bombardeo mediático que construyen la imagen de los delincuentes. Con su sólida investigación, el autor retrata el contexto cultural en el que se desarrollaron los hechos y evidencia el discurso oficial que regía la época, los errores en los diagnósticos psiquiátricos, así como una profunda curiosidad por la vida privada de este criminal. Expone también los mecanismos del morbo que promovieron las metódicas descripciones de la prensa y analiza la forma en que estos elementos construyeron un mito urbano que condensó los miedos de la sociedad de su tiempo Books, Biography & Autobiography~~General, Memorias-de-un-loco-anormal~~Andres-C-Rios, 999999999, Memorias de un loco anormal, Andres C. Rios, 6074299676, Random House Mondadori, , , , , Random House Mondadori<