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| | Amazon.com: Victor: A Novel Based on the Life of the Savage of Aveyron: Books: Mordicai Gerstein (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30) |
 | | But a little-known young doctor, Jean-Marc-Gaspard Itard, was convinced that he could teach the boy, whom he named Victor, to feel, think, and speak. |
 | | There his alleged obliviousness to anything but food and nature cause doctors to label him an idiot, and he languishes, ignored, until a young doctor, Jean-Marc Itard, takes the boy into his care. |
 | | As a novel, however, it is ultimately unsatisfying because Gerstein jumps ahead in time from the close of Itard's six-year study of Victor to a penultimate scene just before the subject's untimely death at age 40. |
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