Collected Works of Paul Valery, Volume 6: Monsieur Teste - Paperback

by Paul Valéry (Author), Jackson Mathews (Editor), Jackson Mathews (Translator)

Although not autobiographical in any usual sense, Valéry's novel is profoundly personal. Monsieur Teste reflects Valéry's preoccupation with the phenomenon of a mind detached from sensibility, yet he is also an ordinary fictional character. This volume includes "Snapshots of Monsieur Teste," excerpts from Valéry's Cahiers.

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Monsieur Teste is Valery's novel. Teste himself may be seen as an ordinary fictional character, the lonely man of modern city life, a problem in everyday human relations.