The Death of Balzac Mirbeau Octave
Here, presented in English for the first time in a translation by Brian Stableford, is one of Octave Mirbeau's darkest works: a fictionalized account of the death of the giant of French letters,…
Specifikacia The Death of Balzac Mirbeau Octave
Here, presented in English for the first time in a translation by Brian Stableford, is one of Octave Mirbeau's darkest works: a fictionalized account of the death of the giant of French letters, Honor de Balzac.Among his journalistic endeavors, Mirbeau contributed a large number of short stories to the newspapers in the fin-de-si cle period, and he honed his skill in that kind of work to near-perfection. Many of his anecdotal short stories make the customary tokenistic pretences to be "true," and there is a considerable gray area between his explicit works of fiction, and articles that represent themselves falsely as reportage. None of his other impostures of that ambiguous kind, however, are quite as brazen or as seductively persuasive in their deception as the triptych making up The Death of Balzac, which, seen purely as a literary
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