Name: Le Calvaire
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Author: Mirbeau Octave
ISBN: 9780946626991

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Publisher

Dedalus Limited

Author

Mirbeau Octave

Language

English

Pages

223

Format

Paperback

ISBN13

9780946626991

Edition No.

0002

Le Calvaire

Mirbeau Octave (Author) · Dedalus Limited · Paperback

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Synopsis "Le Calvaire"

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.

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