Cahiers Octave Mirbeau
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Cahiers Octave Mirbeau is a French literary journal founded in 1994 by French scholar and Octave Mirbeau
specialist Pierre Michel
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The journal is based in Angers
, France. Its periodicity is annual. Between May 1994 and March 2011, 18 installments were released, totaling more than 6,500 pages. Volumes comprise between 320 and 420 pages and are lavishly illustrated. The circulation is 500 to 600 copies.
Each volume divides into at least three major parts. The first is devoted to studies on Octave Mirbeau's literary or aesthetic and political battles. The second includes unpublished or little known documents (unpublished articles by Mirbeau such as correspondence, judgments, testimonies, and translations). The third is a bibliography listing studies and articles devoted to Mirbeau. It reports on the numerous books relating to his time. Some numbers contain a fourth part devoted to contemporary testimonies.
Octave Mirbeau
Octave Mirbeau was a French journalist, art critic, travel writer, pamphleteer, novelist, and playwright, who achieved celebrity in Europe and great success among the public, while still appealing to the literary and artistic avant-garde...
specialist Pierre Michel
Pierre Michel
Pierre Michel , is a literature professor and a scholar specializing in the French writer Octave Mirbeau.Michel was born in Toulon, the son of the historian Henri Michel....
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The journal is based in Angers
Angers
Angers is the main city in the Maine-et-Loire department in western France about south-west of Paris. Angers is located in the French region known by its pre-revolutionary, provincial name, Anjou, and its inhabitants are called Angevins....
, France. Its periodicity is annual. Between May 1994 and March 2011, 18 installments were released, totaling more than 6,500 pages. Volumes comprise between 320 and 420 pages and are lavishly illustrated. The circulation is 500 to 600 copies.
Each volume divides into at least three major parts. The first is devoted to studies on Octave Mirbeau's literary or aesthetic and political battles. The second includes unpublished or little known documents (unpublished articles by Mirbeau such as correspondence, judgments, testimonies, and translations). The third is a bibliography listing studies and articles devoted to Mirbeau. It reports on the numerous books relating to his time. Some numbers contain a fourth part devoted to contemporary testimonies.