Torture Garden by Octave Mirbeau, Translated by Michael Richardson

Dedalus Books 
2022 
Softcover 
206 Pages 
12.5 x 19.5cm 

Condition: Very Good

Decadent classic of fin-de-siècle literature, Torture Garden explores the intersections of violence, beauty, and pleasure in a Chinese torture chamber. Its controversial blend of eroticism and cruelty inspired the surrealists and later countercultural provocateurs. A book that both shocked and shaped modern literature’s darkest edges.