I, Pierre Riviére, Having Slaughtered My Mother, My Sister, And My Brother: A Case Of Parricide In The 19th Century -

University of Nebraska Press, 1982. Paperback. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

University of Nebraska Press, 1982. Paperback. Acceptable. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

University of Nebraska Press. Used - Good. paperback 100% of proceeds go to charity! Good condition with all pages in tact. Item shows signs of use and may have cosmetic defects.

University of Nebraska Press. Used - Very Good. Very Good condition. A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain light spine creasing or a few markings such as an owner’s name, short gifter’s inscription or light stamp.

Lincoln & London: U. Of Nebraska, 1982. 288pp. Corners & ends of spine chipped; owner name half-title. Footnotes. Trans. by Frank Jellinek.. Pb. VG-.

Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1982. Paperback. pp. 288. 8vo. Light shelfwear; very good+.

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pb. Fair. Obviously worn, but no text pages missing. May have highlighting and marginalia, but markings do not interfere with readability. Textbooks do not have accompanying CDs or access codes. Ships from an indie bookstore in NYC.

University of Nebraska Press, 1982. Soft cover. New. New and lovely

First Bison Book Printing. Translation by Frank Jellinik of "Moi, Pierre Riviere, ayant egorge ma mere, ma soeur et mon frere..." (Gallimard, 1973). Softcover volume, measuring approximately 5.25" x 8", is like new. xiv/288 pages."To free his father and himself from his mother's tyranny, Pierre Rivière decided to kill her. On June 3,1835, he went inside his small Normandy house with a pruning hook and cut to death his mother, his eighteen-year-old sister, and his seven-year-old brother. Then, in jail, he wrote a memoir to justify the whole gruesome tale.Michel Foucault, author of "Madness and Civilization" and "Discipline and Punish," collected the relevant documents of the case, including medical and legal testimony, police records. and Rivière's memoir. The Rivière case, he points out, occurred at a time when many professions were contending for status and power. Medical authority was challenging law, branches of government were vying. Foucault's reconstruction of the case is a brilliant… Read More