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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 published under Mirbeau’s name, this study argues that Mirbeau is unique among his fin-de-siècle peers. Unlike the Decadents, whose art was a reliquary in which dead inspiration was preserved, Mirbeau disengaged himself from the corpses of past works. Abhorring tradition and complacency, Mirbeau elaborated a kinetics of fiction that made the novel into an agent of violent transformation. Contrasting the Decadents’ aesthetic of elegant morbidity with Mirbeau’s vitalistic view of fiction, this volume shows Mirbeau modeling himself on the figure of the torture artist, cutting up his finished works, building novels to disassemble them, fitting them together in revolutionary ways. Creativity for Mirbeau fertilizes un jardin des supplices , a cemetery smoldering with decomposing texts that are resolved into their constituent parts and then reemerge in different guises. In Mirbeau’s writing, lives and art works are only transient aggregates of material, and creativity is immortalized through the perishing of old forms.
Mirbeau, Octave, --- Criticism and interpretation --- Mirbeau, Octave --- French fiction. --- French literature --- Mirbo, Oktav, --- Mirbeau, Ottavio, --- מירבאָ, אָקטאַװ --- מירבא, אקטאוו --- מירבא, א. --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Mirbeau, Octave, - 1848-1917 - Criticism and interpretation --- Mirbeau, Octave, - 1848-1917
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Botticelli, Sandro, --- Brahms, Johannes, --- Chopin, Frédéric, --- Debussy, Claude, --- France, Anatole, --- Garden, Mary, --- Mirbeau, Octave, --- Poe, Edgar Allan,
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Showing how Octave Mirbeau controverts the existence of a Christian god, this study argues that Mirbeau never abandons his exploration of life's mysteries, apprehensions of the infinite that come from a refinement of his art and an identification with his brothers.
Suffering in literature. --- Psychic trauma in literature. --- Transcendence (Philosophy) in literature. --- Mirbeau, Octave, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Mirbo, Oktav, --- Mirbeau, Ottavio, --- מירבאָ, אָקטאַװ --- מירבא, אקטאוו --- מירבא, א.
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ed. by Henri Dorra --- Khnopff Fernand --- Puvis de Chavannes Pierre --- Moreau Gustave --- Redon Odilon --- Whistler James Abbott McNeill --- Böcklin Arnold --- Sullivan Louis --- Verlaine Paul --- Rimbaud Arthur --- Mallarmé Stéphane --- Maeterlinck Maurice --- Moréas Jean --- Signac Paul --- van Gogh Vincent --- Sérusier Paul --- Denis Maurice --- Munch Edvard --- Hodler Ferdinand --- Marx Roger --- Péladan Joséphin --- Mirbeau octave --- Fry Roger --- Bell Clive --- de Gourmnt Remy --- Apollinaire Guillaume --- Symbolism (Art movement) --- Europe --- Arts [Modern ] --- 19th century --- kunst --- negentiende eeuw --- twintigste eeuw --- symbolisme --- schilderkunst --- Baudelaire Charles --- Rossetti Dante Gabriel --- Burne-Jones Edward --- Morris William --- Rodin Auguste --- architectuur --- sierkunst --- Eiffel Gustave --- van de Velde Henry --- Mackmurdo Arthur H. --- Gauguin Paul --- literatuur --- postimpressionisme --- pointillisme --- Seurat Georges --- Ensor James --- Cézanne Paul --- Jarry Alfred --- 7.01 --- Mackmurdo Arthur H
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