21 Days of a Neurasthenic Markus Werner

21 Days of a Neurasthenic Markus WernerOctave Mirbeau, author of The Torture Garden and Diary of a Chambermaid, wrote this scathing novel on the cusp of the twentieth century. Driven mad by modern life, Georges Vasseur leaves for a rest cure, where he encounters corrupt politicians, amnesiac coquettes, cheerfully sadistic killers, imperialist generals, and quack psychiatrists. Hypocrites are eternal, and not much has changed since Mirbeau wrote this acid portrait of his era. Octave

and later was minister of the first postwar government in Bulgaria

CHRISTINE DWYER HICKEY has twice won the Listowel Writers’ Week short story competition and is a prize winner in the Observer/Penguin short story competition

The long-awaited final work and magnum opus of one of the United States's greatest authors

"You keep reading this hypnotic novel the way a sleeping person wants to keep dreaming

Autoportrait is a physical

there is only one thing of importance: to win rather than lost

Finding himself raised up from the loneliness and darkness of what has gone before

The Celebration won the 1975 Prêmio Jabuti

and circus sideshow masquerading as a collection of short stories

and this is reflected in the novel’s artful narrative: life and death are reflections of each other

a death that his executioners purposely intended to be prolonged and painful

are the pleasures of middle-class life enough to keep one from joining the legions of the damned