Title: Les 21 jours d'un neurasthénique
First published: 1998
Description: 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.
Subjects: Mental Depression, Neurasthenia, Translations into English, Fiction, Mental illness, Fiction, general, Translation into English
People: Octave Mirbeau (1848-1917)
LC classification: PQ2364.M7 V6 1977