A Loser: Octave Mirbeau’s Evolution from Populist Right to Libertarian Left

This paper is centred on the political turning-point in the life of Octave Mirbeau, best known as an anarchist journalist, novelist and playwright. Mirbeau’s first political affiliation was to Bonapartism (in the 1870s). In the early 1880s he appeared to be growing closer to some of the ideas of the New Right, and in particular wrote some anti-Semitic material. However, in the period 1883–87 he moved to a clear commitment to anarchism. This paper analyses the multidimensional nature of this turning point, at once cultural, aesthetic, personal and political, and considers the nature of Mirbeau’s anarchism. The most important aspect seems to have been anarchism’s openness to the themes of aesthetic freedom and experimentation

European history quarterly.

A partir de 1948 el tít. de la revista es Eusko-Jakintz

Women's Writing and Muslim Societies, 1920-the present: The Search for Dialogue

An analysis of a hundred texts concerning Muslim women: approximately half written by Muslim women, and half by non-Muslims

French Muslims: New Voices in Contemporary France

An analysis of four prominent Muslim thinkers and activists who have had an influence in contemporary France