Le calvaire
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Author
Contributions
- Donougher, Christine, 1954- - Contributor
Publication
1995 - Dedalus, Sawtry, England
Language
English
Word Count
55,750 words, Guess
Page Count
223 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL1165013M
- ISBN-100946626995
- OCLC Control Number34546259
- OCLC Control Numberlecalvaire0000mirb
- Library of Congress Control Number94145532
and 2 more
- LibraryThing1547461
- Goodreads702737
Classifications
- DDC843/.912
- LCCPQ2364.M7 C313 1995
Description
Le Calvaire is a thinly veiled autobiographical novel, which recounts the tortured and traumatic coming of age of the narrator Jean Mintie. It paints a nightmarish picture of late nineteenth century French society: from the stultifying boredom of bourgeois provincialism, to the horrors of the Franco-Prussian war, the grotesque avarice of shameless women and the moral bankruptcy of their compliant victims. Mintie's progress through life is a descent into Hell, a plumbing of the lower depths, the martyrdom of a godless man in a godless age. The publication of Le Calvaire in 1886 marked a brilliant beginning for the Angry Young Man of the Age, who went on to flay the Establishment in Torture Garden and The Diary of a Chambermaid.
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Series Statement
- Empire of the senses
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- Le calvaire
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