Le Calvaire by Octave Mirbeau

Le Calvaire

Octave Mirbeau with Christine Donougher (Translator)

223 pages first pub 1886 (view editions)

fiction reflective slow-paced
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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 ...

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