Remy de Gourmont
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Philosophic Nights in Paris
Categories: Non-Fiction » Literary Criticism
In midnight cafés and shadowed boulevards, a restless observer turns conversation into inquiry, weighing love and instinct, art and language, faith and doubt. With playful skepticism and quicksilver aphorisms, these nocturnal essays test received ideas, tease out paradox, and invite the reader to taste Parisian nights where thought itself becomes an intimate adventure.
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The Book of Masks
Categories: Non-Fiction » Literary Criticism
A cabinet of masks opens onto the fin-de-siècle: incisive portraits of poets and painters, dreamers and decadents, each examined like a rare specimen under shifting light. Aphoristic, mischievous, and steeped in Symbolist fog, these sketches peel away poses and myths to reveal the grotesque, the luminous, and the stubbornly human behind every cultivated mask.
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A Night in the Luxembourg
Categories: Fiction » Christian
A skeptical journalist's diary unveils a fateful evening in Paris's Luxembourg Gardens, where a radiant glow from Saint-Sulpice draws him into a profound encounter with a stranger. Amid erotic passions and forbidden desires, he grapples with faith's illusions, love's mysteries, and the sensual dance between body and spirit in decadent fin-de-siècle shadows
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The Natural Philosophy of Love
Categories: Non-Fiction » Science & Nature
The book offers a meditative exploration of love and sexuality as natural phenomena.
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Decadence and Other Essays on the Culture of Ideas
Categories: Non-Fiction » Philosophy
A bold essay collection probes art and culture, championing free thought over rigid norms. Exploring decadence as evolution, it reflects on immortality, beauty, education, women’s linguistic power, and Mallarmé’s symbolism. With lyrical depth, it unveils creativity’s subconscious roots, urging readers to embrace individualism amid society’s fraying certainties.
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Very Woman (Sixtine): A Cerebral Novel
Categories: Fiction » Romance
The novel centers on an intellectual, emotionally conflicted writer who becomes obsessed with a woman named Sixtine Magne, a mysterious and refined widow.
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A Virgin Heart: A Novel
Categories: Fiction » Classics
A shy scholar, captivated by a young woman, grapples with his unspoken love in the lush French countryside. Her innocent charm and playful spirit stir his repressed desires, but societal norms and his own hesitations bind him. This tender tale of unrequited passion and inner turmoil explores the clash between heart and convention, set against a backdrop of vivid landscapes and quiet longing
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