The Death of Balzac
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"The Death of Balzac" 1907, La Mort de Balzac is a story by Octave Mirbeau, first published as an appendix to the novel La 628-E8.
In an incongruous final section underscoring the novel’s fractured structure, Mirbeau appends a scandalous account of “The Death of Balzac”, relating the author’s death agonies while, in an adjoining room, his wife, Madame Hanska, engaged in sexual frolicking with painter Jean Gigoux. One can only surmise the controversial episode constituted another instance of the kind of iconoclastic writing that Mirbeau was inclined to engage in.
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