Octave Mirbeau's fictions of the transcendental / Robert Ziegler.

Author/creator Ziegler, Robert, 1947-
Format Electronic
Publication InfoNewark : University Of Delaware Press ; Lanham, Maryland : The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., [2015]
Descriptionvii, 213 pages ; 24 cm
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Contents Introduction -- The Pardoner -- Le Calvaire -- L'Abbé Jules -- Sébastien Roch -- The Seer -- Dans le ciel -- The Stranger -- Le Jardin des supplices -- Le Journal d'une femme de chambre -- The Brother -- Les 21 jours d'un neurasthénique-- La 628-E8 -- Dingo -- Conclusion.
Abstract "Casting Octave Mirbeau as a fierce detractor of army, church, and schools--institutions of regimentation and repression that perverted man's instinct and alienated him from nature--critics and literary historians see his fiction as grounded in the sordid social reality of his time. Yet unlike his reactionary contemporaries who sought escape into the narcissistic bliss of mysticism (J.-K. Huysmans) or admission into the exclusive precincts of occult research (Joséphin Péladan), Mirbeau pursued experiences of the transcendental in order to better understand his suffering brothers whose plight he chronicles in his work" -- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 199-202) and index.
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Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2015000743
ISBN9781611495614 (cloth : alk. paper)

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