Book 2015

Twenty-one days of a neurasthenic

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Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
Language: English
Published: 2015

Mental Depression
Neurasthenia
Translations into English
Fiction
Mental illness
Fiction, general
Translation into English

Driven mad by modern life, Georges Vasseur leaves for a rest cure, where he encounters corrupt politicians, amnesiac coquettes, cheerfully sadistic killers, imperialist generals, and quack psychiatrists. Hypocrites are eternal, and not much has changed since Mirbeau wrote this acid portrait of his era.