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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). 
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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. 
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       current Rider University students, faculty, and staff. 
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