Wikipedia page about this book: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sixtine,_roman_de_la_vie_c%C3%A9r%C3%A9brale

Release date is 2006-01-31

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"Sixtine: roman de la vie cérébrale" by Remy de Gourmont is a novel published in 1890. This experimental work follows Hubert d'Entragues, a young symbolist writer consumed by passion for the beautiful Sixtine Magne. Rather than pursuing conventional romance, the novel explores the protagonist's inner thoughts and obsessions as he becomes convinced that reality exists only within the mind. His quest transforms into a desperate pursuit of an ideal, blurring the boundaries between love, imagination, and philosophical abstraction in this pioneering exploration of interior consciousness. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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