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The nothing machine
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ISBN: 9789042022379 904202237X 9786612265426 9401204683 1282265423 1435611926 9789401204682 9781435611924 9781282265424 6612265426 Year: 2007 Volume: 298 Publisher: Amsterdam New York Rodopi

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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.


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Bedouins : Mary Garden, Debussy, Chopin or the circus, Botticelli, Poe, Brahmsody, Anatole France, Mirbeau, Caruso on wheels, Calico cats, the artistic temperament : Idols and ambergris : with the supreme sin, Grindstones, a masque of music, and the vision malefic
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Year: 1920 Publisher: New York : Scribner,

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Octave Mirbeau's fictions of the transcendental
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ISBN: 161149561X 1611495628 9781611495621 9781611495621 9781611495614 Year: 2015 Publisher: Newark Lanham, Maryland

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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.

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