Ndihlala ndifumana i-etymology yegama elithi hysteria inomdla. Kungenxa yokuba ivela kwisibeleko ngesiGrike. Kwaye ke umanyano olula nolucekisekayo lwabasetyhini kunye nabaphambeneyo ngokwendalo lufumaneka ngokulula. I-Aberrant.
Almudena Grandes izinziswe kule noveli ngokukodwa Isibonelelo sabasetyhini besifo sengqondo esasikho eCiempozuelos ukusukela ngo-1877. Phantsi kwale ndlu iphambeneyo, zonke iintlobo "zokutenxa" kunye ne "manias" zexesha elide zandisiwe ukuya kwinkulungwane yamashumi amabini zamkelwa. Ukuphambuka, ukuzonwabisa, ukungaziphathi kakuhle kunye nokusebenza kwengqondo okwenyani kunye neentloni zokufihlwa ziintsapho ezihombisayo.
Yonke into yengqondo yayiqondakala ngakumbi kwaye yohlwaywa kwimeko yabasetyhini, ewe. Ngenxa yokuba imigangatho yokuziphatha isekiwe, kunye nokuqiniseka okukhulu, yayiphi isizathu kwaye yayiphi impambano.
UGermán Velázquez wafika kule ndawo yokhuseleko ngo-1954, kunye neqela lakhe njengogqirha wezengqondo oqeqeshwe phesheya. Nangona ngaphandle kwamathandabuzo ngenxa yolu qeqesho kwiindawo ezininzi zemfundo, iGermán ifumanisa ezona ndlela zinzima kunye nezikhokelo zendawo emiselwe ngakumbi ukucanyagushelwa kwezono kunonyango lwengqondo.
Phakathi kukaGermán noMaría, omnye wabancedisi beziko, ubudlelwane busekiwe obugqitha ubuchwephesha kwimanyano yaseDoña Aurora, umfundi ogqibe ubomi bukayise kwaye engaziwa ukuba i-paranoia yakhe yafika ngaphambili okanye emva kolwaphulo-mthetho, nokuba bekungunobangela wokuziphatha kwakhe okanye sisiphumo sobunyani bolwaphulo-mthetho.
Inqaku kukuba ukusuka eDona Aurora, eGermán naseMaría kungena kwimibono yokuba netyala, yokuziphatha okuhle ekubhaleni ikamva labo egazini. UMaría noGermán baneendawo ezihambelanayo kwimibono yabo yelahleko, ukushiya, ukuhamba, ukubaleka kunye nokungxamiseka ukulibala ixesha elibiweyo.
Ekusebenzisaneni kokubini, efunwa ngumJamani okhohliswe ziimfihlelo zobomi kunye neengcinga zengqondo, uyalibona ixesha elimpunga apho yonke imiphefumlo kuye kwafuneka idayiwe kuloo thoni imfiliba. Kuba ubomi bokuqhayisa, ngakumbi abasetyhini, banokufumana amathambo akhe kwindlu yamadaka.
Ungayithenga inoveli ngoku Umama kaFrankstein, incwadi ye Almudena Grandes, Apha: