Very woman (Sixtine)
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"What is that cloud, called Sixtine, which comes to trouble my royal indifference and to conceal my sun—death? I do not want to go to sleep in the shadow of her beauty...." Hubert Entragues, aesthete and litterateur, conceives a passion for the ethereal Sixtine in this "cerebral novel" of 1890. The romance remains largely imaginary, a passion localized in the skull of the intellectual Entragues. Alone with his thoughts and his literature, the narrator's baroque reflections careen from lyrical exaltation to sullen despondency according to the inscrutable actions of his elusive inamorata. In his...
Chapters (93)
- VERY WOMAN
- (SIXTINE)
- A CEREBRAL NOVEL
- REMY DE GOURMONT
- TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH by J. L. Barrets
- CONTENTS
- CHAPTER I
- THE DEAD LEAVES
- CHAPTER II
- MADAME DU BOYS
- CHAPTER III
- TRAVEL NOTES
- CHAPTER IV
- REFLECTIONS
- CHAPTER V
- MORE TRAVEL NOTES
- The Pale and Green Moon
- CHAPTER VI
- DREAM FIGURE
- CHAPTER VII
- MARCELLE AND MARCELINE
- A story in the style of "Cinderella," but more modern.
- CHAPTER VIII
- THE TRANSPARENT CURTAIN OF TIME
- CHAPTER IX
- THE PROMENADE OF SIN
- CHAPTER X
- THE UNLEAVENED DOUGH
- CHAPTER XI
- DIAMOND DUST
- CHAPTER XII
- THE ADORER
- CHAPTER XIII
- CHRISTUS PATIENS
- CHAPTER XIV
- THE FAUN
- CHAPTER XV
- THE CARNAL HOUR
- CHAPTER XVI
- THE IDEAL BEES
- CHAPTER XVII
- THE ADORER
- II. Peacock Plumes
- CHAPTER XVIII
- A COMPLETE WOMAN
- CHAPTER XIX
- NEW SUGGESTIONS
- CHAPTER XX
- THE TWENTY-EIGHTH OF DECEMBER
- CHAPTER XXI
- THE MYSTIC BARK
- CHAPTER XXII
- THE SIMONIAC
- CHAPTER XXIII
- THE ADORER
- III. Fumes of Incense
- CHAPTER XXIV
- THE COLOR OF MARRIAGE
- CHAPTER XXV
- DEPARTURE
- CHAPTER XXVI
- THE ADORER
- IV. The Blond Forest
- CHAPTER XXVII
- THE EDUCATION OF MAIDENS
- CHAPTER XXVIII
- THE ESTHETIC THRILL
- CHAPTER XXIX
- PANTOMIME
- CHAPTER XXX
- THE MAN AND THE PRETTY BEAST
- CHAPTER XXXI
- THE INFAMY OF BEING HAPPY
- CHAPTER XXXII
- INTOXICATION
- CHAPTER XXXIII
- AN EVENING IN SOCIETY
- CHAPTER XXXIV
- POETIC RAPTURE
- CHAPTER XXXV
- THE ADORER
- V.—The Visitation
- CHAPTER XXXVI
- ANGER
- CHAPTER XXXVII
- THE ADORER
- VI.—Memorare
- CHAPTER XXXVIII
- PRIDE
- CHAPTER XXXIX
- THE KEY TO THE COFFER
- CHAPTER XL
- ULTIMATE PEACE
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