A01=Octave Mirbeau
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Product details
- ISBN 9781628970302
- Format: Paperback
- Weight: 666g
- Dimensions: 150 x 250 x 15mm
- Publication Date: 12 Nov 2015
- Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
- Publication City/Country: Normal, US
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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Octave Mirbeau, author of The Torture Garden and Diary of a Chambermaid, wrote this scathing novel on the cusp of the twentieth century. Driven mad by modern life, Georges Vasseur leaves for a rest cure, where he encounters corrupt politicians, amnesiac coquettes, cheerfully sadistic killers, imperialist generals, and quack psychiatrists. Hypocrites are eternal, and not much has changed since Mirbeau wrote this acid portrait of his era.
Octave Mirbeau (1848-1917) was a leader of the "Decadent" movement. Producing works in reportage, art and literary criticism, travel writing, fiction, and drama, he inspired everything from surrealism to gonzo journalism. Justin Vicari is a poet, critic, and translator. He is the author of Male Bisexuality in Current Cinema: Images of Growth, Rebellion and Survival (McFarland, 2011). His work has received the Third Coast Poetry Prize among other awards. The Professional Weepers is his first full-length collection of poems.
