Has anyone else who's read Mark Haddon's The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime inferred that the main character suffers from Asperger's Syndrome? He meets all of the Asperger's criterion: strongly ordered behavior, affinity for math and physics, poor motor skills, inability to empathize ... etc, ect.
If you drew another conclusion of his condition, I'd like to hear it. I thought I would take a poll of readers before I leapt into the critic reviews. Nobody that I know has read it.
2006-08-31 20:30:28 · 6 answers · asked by Em 5 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
To commenter #2: actually it's a form of autism, and the boy is a mathematical savant. He's really pretty clever.
A similar novel written through the eyes of a cognitively different main character won a Nobel Prize for Literature: William Golding's The Inheritors.
2006-08-31 21:22:19 · update #1
Hot air . . .
2006-09-01 17:35:35 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I didn't infer it myself, not sure if it said so on the blurb or someone told me, but I knew before I read it.
I think Haddon used to work with Asperger's children.
2006-09-01 12:43:11 · answer #2 · answered by Goddess of Grammar 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When I read it I was under the impression that the narrator suffered from Asperger's Syndrome.. it was mentioned either on the back cover or in the story itself. I really loved the book!
2006-09-01 16:23:40 · answer #3 · answered by WiTcH 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I am fairly certain that Haddon has said that the main character suffered from that affliction.
2006-09-01 10:54:15 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes, I hated that book, the guy's a retard to put it simplicticaly, there is too much swearing and curing going on in it
2006-09-01 03:33:13 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 4⤋
I would have to agree with you.
2006-09-01 03:33:08 · answer #6 · answered by Sean M 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋