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Le Calvaire (Empire of the Senses)

Le Calvaire (Empire of the Senses) Paperback - 1997

by Octave Mirbeau

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  • Title Le Calvaire (Empire of the Senses)
  • Author Octave Mirbeau
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First Printing
  • Condition New
  • Pages 223
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Dedalus, United Kingdom
  • Date January 1997
  • Bookseller's Inventory # GOR011005116
  • ISBN 9780946626991 / 0946626995
  • Weight 0.47 lbs (0.21 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.82 x 5 x 0.71 in (19.86 x 12.70 x 1.80 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: French
    • Cultural Region: Western Europe
    • Topical: Coming of Age
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 94145532
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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First line

I was born one October evening at St-Michel-les-Hetres, a village in the departement of Orne and I was immediately christened with the names Jean Francois Marie Mintie.

From the rear cover

Le Calvaire is a thinly veiled autobiographical novel, which recounts the tortured and traumatic coming of age of the narrator Jean Mintie. It paints a nightmarish picture of late nineteenth century French society: from the stultifying boredom of bourgeois provincialism, to the horrors of the Franco-Prussian war, the grotesque avarice of shameless women and the moral bankruptcy of their compliant victims. Mintie's progress through life is a descent into Hell, a plumbing of the lower depths, the martyrdom of a godless man in a godless age. The publication of Le Calvaire in 1886 marked a brilliant beginning for the Angry Young Man of the Age, who went on to flay the Establishment in Torture Garden and The Diary of a Chambermaid.