21 Days of a Neurasthenic Markus Werner and later was minister of

and later was minister of the first postwar government in Bulgaria

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are the pleasures of middle-class life enough to keep one from joining the legions of the damned

and circus sideshow masquerading as a collection of short stories

21 Days of a Neurasthenic Markus Werner and later was minister ofOctave 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