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4.0 von 5 Sternen
A wonderful, sometimes horrific but fascinating book...., 7. Juli 1998
Torture garden has been compared to the Marquis de Sade. It begins quite normal, a drawing room discussion, the subject however is murderers and their role in society. After this it develops into the most cruel book i've ever read, a decadent story that ends in the Torture Garden, a chinese garden with the most horrific tortures imaginable. Distorted views on beauty, mixed with blood and flowers. Life is as important as death. "Passions, appetites, greed, hatred, and lies; law, social institutions, justice, love glory, heroism, and religion: these are it's monstrous flowers and it's hideous instruments of eternal human suffering" Octave Mirbeau is an original and powerful writer. Underneath the surface of this book lies his motive, to expose the hypocrisies of society; to shock the reader into a realisation that much of what he takes for granted is cruel and ugly. Like Sade, Mirbeau was an atheist, and at that time that was something outrageous. he knew what good and evil was, but what bothered him was that in the so called civilised society, so much evil was portrayed as good, and most people didn't notice or care. In torture garden he set out to show people what their world, behind it's hypocrisies, was really like.
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4.0 von 5 Sternen
terrible, wonderful book, 28. August 2006
The reason this book doesn't get 5 stars, is the terrible translation. There are plenty of typos and unfortunate repetitions.
Otherwise this book is overwhelming with the description of beauty and uglyness, love and hate, light and dark, as one and the same thing. The universal balance relies on this duality. At points the book is very disturbing, but once I got through the initial shock and disgust, I managed to grasp a little of the message Mirbeau planted in his work.
Not as sexual as the description might imply, at least not in our contemporary sense of it, the book is still full of love and lust. Through torture and death, the heroine leads the hero of the story to an unbelievable torture garden, where they witness the most cruel methods to kill people, but also the most wonderful vegetation. Watered by the blood of the victims, they blossom to unknown beauty. It's a strange passion and there is a portion of madness in it as well.
This book is a piece of art.
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