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Sixtine: roman de la vie cérébrale

by Remy de Gourmont

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"Sixtine: roman de la vie cérébrale" by Remy de Gourmont is a novel published in 1890. This experimental work follows Hubert d'Entragues, a young symbolist writer consumed by passion for the beautiful Sixtine Magne. Rather than pursuing conventional romance, the novel explores the protagonist's inner thoughts and obsessions as he becomes convinced that reality exists only within the mind. His quest transforms into a desperate pursuit of an ideal, blurring the boundaries between love, imagination, and philosophical abstraction in this pioneering exploration of interior consciousness.

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