Monsieur Teste

The Collected Works of Paul Valry, Volume 6

The National Book Awardwinning translation of Valrys singular novel, a strange and powerful philosophical exploration of human consciousness

Paul Valry was obsessed with exploring the conscious mind, and it was this preoccupation that produced the unusual masterpiece of modern fiction that is Monsieur Teste. Although not autobiographical in any usual sense, Valrys only novel is a profoundly personal book, a portrait of a character whose mind is shown in two aspectsdetached from the senses and engaged in the events of everyday life. This volume also includes Snapshots of Monsieur Teste”passages from Valrys Notebooks that give a closer view of Teste.

The Collected Works of Paul Valry, the first collected edition of the writer in English, features new translations, the original French on facing pages for poetic works, and editorial notes.

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