Meneer Teste

by Paul Valery

Other authorsPiet Meeuse (Translator)
Paper Book, 2019

Status

Available

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2.valery

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Publication

Bleiswijk : Vleugels, 2019

User reviews

LibraryThing member stillatim
Really, I just want to quote, but it's worth noting that what other characters write about M. Teste is much more interesting than the texts attributed to Teste himself.

"Coming back to Monsieur Teste... a character of this kind could not survive in reality for more than a few quarters of an hour."
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"He said in his low quick voice: 'Let them enjoy and obey!'"

"I sometimes amuse myself with an idea of our hearts borrowed from physics: they are made of an enormous injustice and a very small justice intimately combined."

"Simply remember that between men there are two relations only: logic or war."

"At the end of the mind, the body. But at the end of the body, the mind."

And so it goes on: intellectually difficult, beautifully expressed, all a fascinating experiment.
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Awards

National Book Award (Finalist — Translation — 1974)

Language

Original language

French

Original publication date

1896 (La Soirée...)
1926
1946 (extended posthumous ed.)

ISBN

9789078627746
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