Octave Mirbeau is read about 281 times a day, in 143 languages.
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Something wrong?A French writer who managed the rare trick of pleasing both the masses and the avant-garde by writing novels that didn't look away from violence, abuse, and the cold mechanics of detachment.
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, During Humankind’s long centuries societies have risen and fallen, all alike in this one fact which rules all history: the great are protected, the small are crushed.
Sheep run to the slaughterhouse, silent and hopeless, but at least sheep never vote for the butcher who kills them or the people who devour them.
When one tears away the veils and shows them naked, people’s souls give off such a pungent smell of decay.” (Diary of a Chambermaid)
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Octave Henri Marie Mirbeau was born on 16 February 1848 and spent his career working across forms - novels, art criticism, travel writing, pamphlets, journalism, plays. He became a celebrity across Europe by writing transgressive fiction that explored the darker currents of human behavior without flinching. The work found readers in both popular and experimental circles, a balance few writers strike. He died on his birthday in 1917, sixty-nine years to the day after he was born. His books have since been translated into thirty languages.
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