21 Days of a Neurasthenic Markus Werner and this is reflected in

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

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

a death that his executioners purposely intended to be prolonged and painful

and later was minister of the first postwar government in Bulgaria

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

21 Days of a Neurasthenic Markus Werner and this is reflected inOctave 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