Couleurs. Contes nouveaux; suivis de Choses anciennes

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Couleurs. Contes nouveaux; suivis de Choses anciennes

by Remy de Gourmont

FR·~2 hours·33 chapters

Chapters

33 total

COULEURS

0:00

JAUNE

5:26

NOIR

6:52

BLANC

11:05

BLEU

14:11

VIOLET

10:14

ROUGE

6:01

VERT

8:06

ZINZOLIN

13:27

ROSE

6:51

Description

The volume gathers a lively assortment of short narratives that read like miniature poems, each crafted with a rhythm that blurs the line between prose and verse. Its creator argues that a story, at its heart, must carry the same musicality once reserved for epic poems, and that feeling—often sparked by a sunny afternoon—infuses every tale with a quiet joy. The result is a collection that feels more like a wandering promenade through assorted landscapes than a single, linear adventure.

Among the pieces, a silent pilgrim drifts through forgotten chapels, while a restless ghost haunts a singular castle whose walls seem to breathe. A dream‑touched woman navigates the fragile borders between desire and memory, and the mythic horses of Diomède gallop across a distant, imagined realm. Each vignette blends the ordinary with the uncanny, offering listeners a series of evocative snapshots that linger long after the final line.

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Language

fr

Duration

~2 hours (154K characters)

Publisher of text edition

Project Gutenberg

Credits

Laurent Vogel and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries)

Release date

2020-11-26

Rights

Public domain in the USA.

About the author

Remy de Gourmont

Remy de Gourmont

1858–1915

A leading voice of the French Symbolist era, he wrote criticism, fiction, poetry, and essays with a curious, independent mind. His work helped shape literary taste in Paris at the turn of the 20th century.

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