The Torture Garden (French: Le Jardin des supplices) is a novel written by the French journalist, novelist and playwright Octave Mirbeau, and was first published in 1899 during the Dreyfus Affair.
The novel is ironically dedicated: To the priests, the soldiers, the judges, to those people who educate, instruct and govern men, I dedicate these pages of Murder and Blood.
Published at the height of the Dreyfus Affair, Mirbeau's novel is a loosely assembled reworking of texts composed at different eras, featuring different styles, and showcasing different characters.
Beginning with material stemming from articles on the 'Law of Murder' discussed in the Frontispice (The Manuscript), the novel continues with a farcical critique of French politics with En Mission (The Mission): a French politicians' aide is sent on a pseudo-scientific expedition to China when his presence at home would be compromising.
It then moves on to an account of a visit to a Cantonese prison by a narrator accompanied by the sadist/hysteric Clara, who delights in witnessing flayings, crucifixions and numerous tortures, all done in beautifully laid out and groomed gardens, and explaining the beauty of torture to her companion.
Finally she attains hysterical orgasm and passes out in exhaustion, only to begin again a few days later (Le Jardin des supplices, The Garden).
| (french | Le |
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| The novel is ironically dedicated | To the priests the soldiers the judges to those people who educate instruct and govern men |
| Mission) | A |
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