Le Jardin des supplices of Octave Mirbeau as a literary illustration of the eternal return myth (1899)
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Keywords

Mirbeau Octave
Jardin des supplices

How to Cite

Lair, S. (2008). Le Jardin des supplices of Octave Mirbeau as a literary illustration of the eternal return myth (1899). Studia Romanica Posnaniensia, 35, 49–65. https://doi.org/10.14746/strop.2008.35.004

Abstract

In Mirbeau's novel Le Jardin des supplices (1899), the circular representation, completed and relayed by design of the plant, should be read violently. The reader conceives some philosophical influences or convergences. The Narcissus myth is subjected here to a literary transmutation. The novel tells a personal obsession; it becomes a reconciliation between earlier fictions [L'Abbé Jules (1888), Dans le ciel (1892-1893)] and his dramatic work which is coming.
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