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Monsieur Teste: The Collected Works of Paul Val茅ry, Volume 6

    Translated by
  • Jackson Mathews
    Introduction by
  • Jackson Mathews

The National Book Award鈥搘inning translation of Val茅ry鈥檚 singular novel, a strange and powerful philosophical exploration of human consciousness

Hardcover

Price:
$60.00/拢50.00
ISBN:
Published:
Sep 1, 2026
Copyright:
1973
Pages:
184
Size:
5.5 x 8.5 in.

Paul Val茅ry 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, Val茅ry鈥檚 only novel is a profoundly personal book, a portrait of a character whose mind is shown in two aspects鈥攄etached from the senses and engaged in the events of everyday life. This volume also includes 鈥淪napshots of Monsieur Teste鈥濃�攑assages from Val茅ry鈥檚 Notebooks that give a closer view of Teste.

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