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Flowers for Algernon
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Flowers for Algernon

1966 · Livre · Daniel Keyes · 274 pages

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  • sf
  • institutionalization
  • dementia
  • phenylketonuria
  • award:nebula_award=novel
  • brain

Résumé

Until he was thirty-two, Charlie Gordon --gentle, amiable, oddly engaging-- had lived in a kind of mental twilight. He knew knowledge was important and had learned to read and write after a fashion, but he also knew he wasn't nearly as bright as most of the people around him. There was even a white mouse named Algernon who outpaced Charlie in some ways. But a remarkable operation had been performed on Algernon, and now he was a genius among mice. Suppose Charlie underwent a similar operation...

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Daniel Keyes