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100 1 _aGourmont, Remy de,
_d1858-1915
245 1 0 _aMr. Antiphilos, satyr
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2026
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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338 _aonline resource
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500 _aIncludes Three stories from Colors, translated by L. Lozowick, with separate title-page.
500 _aTranslator of Mr. Antiphilos, satyr (John Howard) and author of introduction (Jack Lewis) appear to be same person.
500 _aRelease date is 2026-03-14
505 0 _aMr. Antiphilos, satyr, translated by John Howard -- Three stories from Colors, translated by Louis Lozowick: Blue. Zinzoline. White.
508 _aBob Taylor, Tim Lindell and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
520 _a"Mr. Antiphilos, satyr" by Remy de Gourmont is a philosophical epistolary novel written in the early 20th century. It follows an immortal satyr, Antiphilos, as he moves from a mythic, natural world into modern society, reflecting on desire, freedom, art, and morality while charting his loves—especially the captivating Cydalise—and his uneasy domestication among humans. The opening of Mr. Antiphilos, satyr begins with an introduction situating Gourmont as a detached, paradox-loving critic of modern conventions and a champion of art’s sovereignty, then a dedicatory letter in which the author frames the satyr as a naïve, instinctive being set against social constraint. Antiphilos’s first letters protest the press calling human criminals “satyrs,” recount his long history from Phrygia through Greece and Italy, and tell of La Fosca and the painter Allegri (who captures them in the canvas later known as “Jupiter and Antiope”). He then winters in the south of France, meets Cydalise—a performer who seeks him out—learns to read and write, and, under her guidance, dons clothes and moves into town, where blissful mornings alternate with a sense of confinement and the pull of instinct. A frightened dash from a schoolyard, first forays into cafés, and a discreet affair with a brunette named Erebus while Cydalise tours highlight the tension between nature and civilization; befriending an aging letter-writer he calls Diogenes deepens his melancholy. The section closes as he hints that Diogenes has steered him toward a new entanglement with Déidamie and “dreadful happenings” to come. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cNew York: Lieber & Lewis, 1922
653 _aShort stories, French -- Translations into English
653 _aFrench fiction -- Translations into English
653 _aSatire, French -- Translations into English
700 1 _aHoward, John,
_d1893-
700 1 _aLozowick, Louis,
_d1892-1973
856 4 _uhttps://archive.org/details/mrantiphilossaty00gourrich/page/n7/mode/2up
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78206
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