... "a poorly-conceived attack on parliamentary socialism"10 whilst for others it was "worthless dilettanism"11. Reg Carr, however, highlights that "the anarchists realised what Mirbeau was trying to do, and agreed that [he] had been successful"12, seeing the play as a "a clear indication of the depths of Mirbeau's anarchism, for he regarded any authority, whatever the source, as a potential evil"13 ... interpretations of mechanisation is fitting in revealing how far apart the movements became in this period. For Octave Mirbeau, an ardent anarchist, the mechanical age and the motor car were...

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