The nothing machine : the fiction of Octave Mirbeau /
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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; New York :
Rodopi,
2007.
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Colección: | Faux titre ;
no. 298. |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The Nothing Machine The Fiction of Octave Mirbeau; Contents; Introduction; Part I The Statue; Chapter One Art as Repair: Le Calvaire; Chapter Two Iconoclasm: L'abbé Jules; Chapter Three The Perfect Death: Sébastien Roch; Part Ii The Matrix; Chapter Four Reaching Up: Dans le ciel; Chapter Five A Way Out: Un gentilhomme; Chapter Six The Undifferentiated Bed: Le Jardin des supplices; Chapter Seven Fetish and Meaning: Le Journal d'une femme de chambre; Part Iii The Nothing Machine; Chapter Eight From Matter to Motion: Les 21 jours d'un neurasthénique; Chapter Nine The Novel as Machine: La 628-E8.
- Chapter Ten Non-human Narrative: DingoConclusion; References; Index.