Brought together under old firs by a matchmaking countess, the intellectual Hubert d’Entragues and the elusive Sixtine begin a slow, uncertain courtship. Hubert lives largely inside his own head, writing a novel within the novel and analysing every glance, while a passionate Russian rival, Moscowitch, pursues the same woman by simpler means.
A landmark of French Symbolist fiction, in J. L. Barrets’s English translation. Download the free EPUB.