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The Calvary (Musaicum Romance Classics)
The Calvary (Musaicum Romance Classics)
The Calvary (Musaicum Romance Classics)
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The Calvary is a largely autobiographical novel, in which Mirbeau romanticizes his devastating affair with a woman of dubious morals, Judith Vinmer, who appears as "Juliette Roux" in the novel. The story is narrated in the first person by the main character, the antihero Jean Mintie, who has literary ambition and the potential to become a good writer, is incapable of overcoming his sexual obsessions. Victimized by a woman and reduced to a state of humiliated impotence, he tries to transform his suffering into an impulse to create. His redemptive passion is modeled on the Passion of Christ!
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"I was born one evening in October at Saint-Michel-les-Hêtres, a small town in the department of Orne, and I was immediately christened by the name of Jean-François-Marie-Mintié. To celebrate in a fitting manner my coming into this world, my godfather, who was my uncle, distributed a lot of dainties, threw many coppers and other small coins to a crowd of country boys gathered on the church steps. One of them, while struggling with his comrades, fell so awkwardly on the sharp edge of a stone that he broke his neck and died the following day. As for my uncle, when he returned home he contracted typhoid fever and passed away a few weeks later. My governess, old Marie, often related these incidents to me with pride and admiration."
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Release dateMay 7, 2021
ISBN4064066382339
The Calvary (Musaicum Romance Classics)
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Octave Mirbeau

Octave Mirbeau (1848-1917) war ein französischer Journalist, Kunstkritiker, Romanautor und eine der bedeutendsten Persönlichkeiten der französischen Belle Epoque.Als anarchistischer Schriftsteller lehnte er Naturalismus und Symbolismus ab. Seine Komödie Geschäft ist Geschäft gehörte nach 1903 zu den meistgespielten Stücken an deutschen Theatern. Zitat von Leo Tolstoi: Octave Mirbeau ist der grösste französische Schriftsteller unserer Zeit und derjenige, der in Frankreich den Geist des Jahrhunderts am besten repräsentiert.

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