Valéry, Paul,  1871-1945 <br/><br/>
Monsieur Teste 

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<br/><br/> Wikipedia page about this book: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monsieur_Teste  Release date is 2025-02-22 
<br/><br/>La soirée avec M. Teste -- Lettre d'un ami -- Lettre de Madame Émilie Teste -- Extraits du log-book de Monsieur Teste. 
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<br/><br/> "Monsieur Teste" by Paul Valéry is a fragmentary prose cycle first published in 1896 and expanded in 1926. The work presents Monsieur Teste, a mysterious intellectual who rejects emotion, personal relationships, and artistic creation in favor of pure rational thought. Through letters, diary entries, and observations from friends and his wife, Valéry explores this enigmatic figure who embodies extreme rationality and self-awareness while remaining deliberately isolated from society. The character serves as both a critique and embodiment of absolute intellectualism. (This is an automatically generated summary.) 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Index Terms: </label>France -- Fiction Men -- Fiction Sensitivity (Personality trait) -- Fiction 
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