Le Calvaire |
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| Author:
| Mirbeau, Octave |
| Translator:
| Donougher, Christine |
| Editor:
| Murdoch, Adrian |
| Series title: | Decadence from Dedalus Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-946626-99-1 |
| Publication Date: | Dec 1992 |
| Publisher: | Dedalus Books Limited
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | AUD $29.95 |
Book Description:
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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...
More DescriptionLe 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.