Monsieur Teste

by Paul Valéry

Book Overview

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 Val ry underwent an existential crisis. For the next twenty years, he wrote no poetry, devoting himself instead to the study of philosophy,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1681378922
• ISBN13: 9781681378923
• Release Date: December 2024
• Publisher: New York Review of Books
• Length: 104 Pages
• Weight: 0.81 lbs.