LEADER 00000cam a2200613Ia 4500 001 ocn191955300 003 OCoLC 005 20160527040546.9 006 m o d 007 cr cnu---unuuu 008 080212s2007 ne ob 001 0 eng d 019 666983715|a712988539|a764535928|a842939944 020 9781435611924|q(electronic book) 020 1435611926|q(electronic book) 020 904202237X 020 9789042022379 020 |z9789042022379 020 |z904202237X 035 (OCoLC)191955300|z(OCoLC)666983715|z(OCoLC)712988539 |z(OCoLC)764535928|z(OCoLC)842939944 040 N$T|beng|epn|cN$T|dYDXCP|dOCLCQ|dE7B|dIDEBK|dOCLCQ|dSNK |dEBLCP|dOCLCQ|dVPI|dOCLCQ|dCOO|dOCLCQ|dOCLCF|dOCLCQ 049 RIDW 050 4 PQ2364.M7|bZ685 2007eb 072 7 LIT|x004150|2bisacsh 082 04 848.91209|222 084 18.25|2bcl 090 PQ2364.M7|bZ685 2007eb 100 1 Ziegler, Robert,|d1947-|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/ names/n2001034002 245 14 The nothing machine :|bthe fiction of Octave Mirbeau / |cRobert Ziegler. 264 1 Amsterdam ;|aNew York :|bRodopi,|c2007. 300 1 online resource (250 pages). 336 text|btxt|2rdacontent 337 computer|bc|2rdamedia 338 online resource|bcr|2rdacarrier 340 |gpolychrome|2rdacc 347 text file|2rdaft 490 1 Faux titre ;|v298 504 Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-248) and index. 520 8 In an era when reality was aestheticized as collectibles, Octave Mirbeau unleashed his fiction like a destructive machine, setting fire to stale material and discredited ideologies, burning them as fuel and expelling texts as clean emissions. In this first English-language overview of all the novels published under Mirbeau?s name, this study argues that Mirbeau is unique among his fin-de- siecle peers. Unlike the Decadents, whose art was a reliquary in which dead inspiration was preserved, Mirbeau disengaged himself from the corpses of past works. Abhorring tradition and complacency, Mirbeau elaborated a kinetics of fiction that made the novel into an agent of violent transformation. Contrasting the Decadents? aesthetic of elegant morbidity with Mirbeau?s vitalistic view of fiction, this volume shows Mirbeau modeling himself on the figure of the torture artist, cutting up his finished works, building novels to disassemble them, fitting them together in revolutionary ways. Creativity for Mirbeau fertilizes un jardin des supplices, a cemetery smoldering with decomposing texts that are resolved into their constituent parts and then reemerge in different guises. In Mirbeau?s writing, lives and art works are only transient aggregates of material, and creativity is immortalized through the perishing of old forms. 588 0 Print version record. 590 eBooks on EBSCOhost|bEBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America 600 10 Mirbeau, Octave,|d1848-1917|0https://id.loc.gov/ authorities/names/n50033504|xCriticism and interpretation. |0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99005576 600 17 Mirbeau, Octave,|d1848-1917.|2fast|0https:// id.worldcat.org/fast/11299 650 7 Criticism and interpretation.|2fast|0https:// id.worldcat.org/fast/1198648 655 4 Electronic books. 655 7 Criticism, interpretation, etc.|2fast|0https:// id.worldcat.org/fast/1411635 776 08 |iPrint version:|aZiegler, Robert.|tNothing machine. |dAmsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2007|z9789042022379 |z904202237X|w(OCoLC)172716911 830 0 Faux titre ;|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/ n42036085|vno. 298. 856 40 |uhttps://rider.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http:// search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site& db=nlebk&AN=212268|zOnline eBook. Access restricted to current Rider University students, faculty, and staff. 856 42 |3Instructions for reading/downloading this eBook|uhttp:// guides.rider.edu/ebooks/ebsco 901 MARCIVE 20231220 948 |d201606016|cEBSCO|tebscoebooksacademic|lridw 994 92|bRID