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
1

COULEURS

0:00
2

JAUNE

5:26
3

NOIR

6:52
4

BLANC

11:05
5

BLEU

14:11
6

VIOLET

10:14
7

ROUGE

6:01
8

VERT

8:06
9

ZINZOLIN

13:27
10

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 sharp-minded voice of French Symbolism, he wrote with unusual freedom about art, desire, language, and the life of the mind. His essays and fiction helped shape literary debate in France around the turn of the 20th century.

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