Nine essays by the French Symbolist critic, drawn from La Culture des Idées, Le Chemin de Velours and the Promenades Philosophiques. Gourmont pulls apart ideas that habit has welded together — glory and immortality, success and beauty, education and virtue — and writes on women and language, Mallarmé, style and the unconscious sources of creation.
A sharp, sceptical mind at work, here in William Aspenwall Bradley’s English translation of 1922. Download the free EPUB.