Les 21 jours d'un neurasthenique

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Title page of Les 21 jours d'un neurasthénique , 1901

Les Vingt et un jours d'un neurasthénique is a satirical novel by the French writer Octave Mirbeau , published in 1901 . German translation: Never again mountain air, or The 21 days of a neurasthenic , translation by Wieland Grommes, Manholt Verlag, Bremen, 2000.

A literary monstrosity

Wieland Grommes: “Here Mirbeau drives his contempt for the laws of the traditionally composed realistic novel, as demanded by naturalism, to excess: There is no limited group of 'main characters', no 'development', no more 'action', none form that is really easy to grasp. Nothing happens, there is basically just 'talking' - even if about the funniest, most absurd, most horrible things that actually or supposedly happened to this and that person. Even worse, even more anarchist: the author does not even bother to invent a new material, a new story, but uses old, already known material 'from the drawer', namely no less than 55 prose texts. "

literature

  • Octave Mirbeau: Les 21 jours d'un neurasthénique . Buchet / Chastel, Paris 2001, ISBN 2-283-01823-4 .
  • Octave Mirbeau: Never again mountain air or 21 days of a neurasthenic. Novel . Dtv, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-423-12999-9 .

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