Octave Mirbeau's Fictions of the Transcendental

Fiction & Literature, Literary Theory & Criticism, French, European, Nonfiction, History, France
Cover of the book Octave Mirbeau's Fictions of the Transcendental by Robert Ziegler, University of Delaware Press
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Author: Robert Ziegler ISBN: 9781611495621
Publisher: University of Delaware Press Publication: April 21, 2015
Imprint: University of Delaware Press Language: English
Author: Robert Ziegler
ISBN: 9781611495621
Publisher: University of Delaware Press
Publication: April 21, 2015
Imprint: University of Delaware Press
Language: English

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.

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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.

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