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100 1 _aLenormand, H.-R.
_q(Henri-René),
_d1882-1951
245 1 3 _aLe penseur et la crétine
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2025
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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500 _aRelease date is 2025-04-04
505 0 _aLe penseur et la crétine -- Printemps marocain -- A l'ecart -- La plus malheureuse -- La piémontaise -- La métisse -- L'ami des jaunes -- Le col.
508 _aLaurent Vogel and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from scanned images of public domain material from the Google Books project.)
520 _a"Le penseur et la crétine : récits" by H.-R. Lenormand is a collection of short stories written in the early 20th century. The book examines the lives and inner worlds of various characters as they confront the limits of intellect, happiness, culture, and the boundaries between thought, instinct, and society. Through philosophically infused narratives, it explores questions about the human condition, such as the sources of suffering, the meaning of happiness, and the nature of artistic creation, often in stark or exotic settings. The opening of the book introduces Auvernier, an intellectual and writer retreating to a remote mountain village to finish his much-anticipated philosophical work about happiness and thought. Immersed in a rustic environment among so-called "inferior" villagers marked by poverty and superstition, Auvernier methodically observes their lives, focusing on a local woman with intellectual disability—the "crétine." As he witnesses her simple pleasures, his faith in the supremacy of thought and cultivated happiness is shaken, leading to existential doubt about the value and reach of intellect. The subsequent story moves to Morocco, following British expatriates and their uneasy interactions with local customs and mysticism, foregrounding cultural misunderstandings and the limits of rational benevolence. The narrative then shifts again, this time to the life of a sensitive, alienated artist in North Africa, exploring the connection between creativity, desire, and suffering. Overall, the opening stories interrogate the presumed superiority of intellect, the vulnerability of ideals, and the complex realities faced by individuals in unfamiliar or marginal situations. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cParis: Crès, 1920
653 _aShort stories, French
653 _aFrench fiction -- 20th century
856 4 _uhttps://books.google.com/books?id=UYQMAQAAMAAJ
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/75792
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