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Le Calvaire

By Octave Mirbeau

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Le Calvaire

By Octave Mirbeau

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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.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
2
Number of Pages:
223
Release Date:
1997-01-01
Publication Date:
1997-01-01
Publisher:
Dedalus
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0946626995
ISBN13:
9780946626991
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
213 g
Height:
127 cm
Width:
199 cm
Thickness:
18 cm
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