Cover of Paul Valery, Charlotte Mandell (TRN), Ryan Ruby (INT): Monsieur Teste

Paul Valery, Charlotte Mandell (TRN), Ryan Ruby (INT) Monsieur Teste

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New York Review of Books

USA

2024

Paperback

79

Standard

320994

978-1-68137-892-3

1-68137-892-2

Annotation

A defining work of twentieth-century modernism, now newly translated--a philosophical novel about the nature of consciousness, all centered around a character who is composed of absolute brain and intellect, a character of pure mind. In 1892, during an intense thunderstorm, the great Symbolist poet Paul Valéry underwent an existential crisis. For the next twenty years, he wrote no poetry, devoting himself instead to the study of philosophy, mathematics, and language--and to the creation of his literary alter ego, Monsieur Teste, who first appeared in the 1896 novella The Evening with Monsieur Teste, and about whom Valéry continued to write for the rest of his life.

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