Les Vingt et un Jours d'un neurasthénique

Les Vingt et un jours d'un neurasthénique is a published in 1901 satirical novel by Octave Mirbeau. German Translation: No more mountain air, or the 21 days of a neurasthenic, translated by Wieland Grommes, Manholt Verlag, Bremen, 2000.

A literary monstrosity

Wieland Grommes: " Mirbeau doing here his contempt for the laws of the traditionally composed realist novel, as called for him naturalism, to excess: There are no limited group of ' main characters ', not ' development ', no, action ', no more so right to comprehensive form. Nothing happens, it will basically just talk ' - albeit on the funniest, most absurd, most horrible things that this or that actually or allegedly happened. Even worse, even anarchist: The author does not even bother to a new substance to invent a new story, it also converts old, nor to already known material from the drawer ', not less than 55 prose texts ".