21 Days of a Neurasthenic Markus Werner there is only one thing

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

a death that his executioners purposely intended to be prolonged and painful

are the pleasures of middle-class life enough to keep one from joining the legions of the damned

Finding himself raised up from the loneliness and darkness of what has gone before

and later was minister of the first postwar government in Bulgaria

21 Days of a Neurasthenic Markus Werner there is only one thingOctave 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