by Octave Mirbeau · Editorial Impedimenta · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788493655020
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Meet Georges L., the hero of this novella: he is just a Parisian cashier, of contemplative spirit, apparently devoid of personality and condemned to lead a larval existence. Obsessed with the overwhelming stupidity and immense ugliness of the human race, only one thing keeps him alive: the hatred he feels towards his wife, a dry and sinister woman whose sole objective is to make his life impossible. But Georges has a ruthless capacity to shut himself off and escape from the social depravity that surrounds him, and that will save him from his own destruction. Written in the heat of the famous Dreyfus affair, this Memory of Georges the Embittered is a politically incorrect fable equipped with a jet-black humor, mixing crime, unsatisfied carnal desires, and the eternal questions about the uncertain destiny of man.
Octave Henri Marie Mirbeau was a French novelist, art critic, travel writer, pamphleteer, journalist and playwright, who achieved celebrity in Europe and great success among the public, whilst still appealing to the literary and artistic avant-garde with highly transgressive novels that explored violence, abuse and psychological detachment. His work has been translated into 30 languages.
