The nothing machine : : the fiction of Octave Mirbeau / / Robert Ziegler.
In an era when reality was aestheticized as collectibles, Octave Mirbeau unleashed his fiction like a destructive machine, setting fire to stale material and discredited ideologies, burning them as fuel and expelling texts as clean emissions. In this first English-language overview of all the novels...
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| Superior document: | Faux titre ; 298 |
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| Year of Publication: | 2007 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Faux titre ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (251 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material
- Art as Repair: Le Calvaire
- Iconoclasm: L’Abbé Jules
- The Perfect Death: Sébastien Roch
- Reaching Up: Dans le ciel
- A Way Out: Un gentilhomme
- The Undifferentiated Bed: Le Jardin des supplices
- Fetish and Meaning: Le Journal d’une femme de chambre
- From Matter to Motion: Les 21 jours d’un neurasthénique
- The Novel as Machine: La 628-E8
- Non-human Narrative: Dingo
- Conclusion
- References
- Index.