21 Days of a Neurasthenic Markus Werner The long-awaited final work and

The long-awaited final work and magnum opus of one of the United States's greatest authors

and later was minister of the first postwar government in Bulgaria

The Celebration won the 1975 Prêmio Jabuti

there is only one thing of importance: to win rather than lost

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21 Days of a Neurasthenic Markus Werner The long-awaited final work andOctave Mirbeau, author of The Torture Garden and Diary of a Chambermaid, wrote this scathing novel on the cusp of the twentieth century. Driven mad by modern life, Georges Vasseur leaves for a rest cure, where he encounters corrupt politicians, amnesiac coquettes, cheerfully sadistic killers, imperialist generals, and quack psychiatrists. Hypocrites are eternal, and not much has changed since Mirbeau wrote this acid portrait of his era. Octave