21 Days of a Neurasthenic Markus Werner The Celebration won the 1975

The Celebration won the 1975 Prêmio Jabuti

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

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

"You keep reading this hypnotic novel the way a sleeping person wants to keep dreaming

21 Days of a Neurasthenic Markus Werner The Celebration won the 1975Octave 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