21 Days of a Neurasthenic Markus Werner "You keep reading this hypnotic

"You keep reading this hypnotic novel the way a sleeping person wants to keep dreaming

Finding himself raised up from the loneliness and darkness of what has gone before

Autoportrait is a physical

and circus sideshow masquerading as a collection of short stories

and this is reflected in the novel’s artful narrative: life and death are reflections of each other

21 Days of a Neurasthenic Markus Werner "You keep reading this hypnoticOctave Mirbeau, author of The Torture Garden and Diary of a Chambermaid, wrote this scathing novel on the cusp of the twentieth century. 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. Octave