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Le calvaire / Octave Mirbeau ; translated by Christine Donougher and with an introduction by Adrian Murdoch.
LIBRA PQ2364.M7 C313 1995
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mirbeau, Octave, 1848-1917.
- Series:
- Empire of the senses
- Standardized Title:
- Calvaire. English
- Language:
- English
- French
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 223 pages ; 20 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Sawtry : Dedalus ; New York, NY : Hippocrene, 1995.
- Summary:
- Le Calvaire is a thinly veiled autobiographical novel, which recounts the tortured and traumatic coming of age of the narrator Jean Mintie. It paints a nightmarish picture of late nineteenth century French society: from the stultifying boredom of bourgeois provincialism, to the horrors of the Franco-Prussian war, the grotesque avarice of shameless women and the moral bankruptcy of their compliant victims. Mintie's progress through life is a descent into Hell, a plumbing of the lower depths, the martyrdom of a godless man in a godless age. The publication of Le Calvaire in 1886 marked a brilliant beginning for the Angry Young Man of the Age, who went on to flay the Establishment in Torture Garden and The Diary of a Chambermaid.
- ISBN:
- 0946626995
- OCLC:
- 34546259
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