Monsieur Teste: The Collected Works of Paul Valéry, Volume 6

The National Book Award–winning translation of Valéry’s singular novel, a strange and powerful philosophical exploration of human consciousness

Paul Valéry was obsessed with exploring the conscious mind, and it was this preoccupation that produced the unusual masterpiece of modern fiction that is Monsieur Teste. Although not autobiographical in any usual sense, Valéry’s only novel is a profoundly personal book, a portrait of a character whose mind is shown in two aspects—detached from the se...