Abstract
When asked by an interviewer why his characters invariably proved to be grotesque caricatures, Octave Mirbeau retorted, 'Caricature? ... peut-on jamais representer l'humanite aussi bouffonne qu' elle est!' 1 Critics who present Mirbeau as an earnest man of the left, as an ingenuous ideologue and virulent pamphleteer, ignore some of the more vital sources of his creative energy. The narrator of Les 21 Jours d'un neurasthenique (1901) details some of the real enthusiasms of this gentleman anarchist:
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