Histoires magiques

audiobook

Histoires magiques

by Remy de Gourmont

FR·~2 hours·20 chapters

Chapters

20 total
1

REMY DE GOURMONT

2:00
2

PÉHOR

11:06
3

LA ROBE BLANCHE

12:43
4

LE SECRET DE DON JUAN

7:18
5

LES FUGITIVES

4:52
6

LES YEUX D'EAU

6:25
7

LE SUAIRE

13:51
8

SUR LE SEUIL

11:00
9

LA MARGUERITE ROUGE

10:41
10

LA SŒUR DE SYLVIE - I

8:11

Description

A wandering collection of short stories, lyrical sketches and daring essays, this volume invites listeners into a world where the ordinary slips into the uncanny. Each piece—whether a ghostly castle, a silent pilgrim or a playful dialogue—glitters with a quiet, almost magical intensity, offering a variety of moods that keep the ear tuned to the strange beauty of everyday moments.

One of the most memorable threads follows Douceline, a nervous, fiercely imaginative girl whose tender hands trace the faces of strangers and the pages of sacred texts alike. Her secret reverence for vibrant, human‑scaled images of the divine clashes with the austere rituals of communion, revealing a tender rebellion that feels both intimate and universal. As her story unfolds, listeners sense a delicate balance between yearning for the holy and the irresistible pull of personal desire, setting the tone for the collection’s blend of mysticism and raw, human feeling.

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Language

fr

Duration

~2 hours (162K characters)

Publisher of text edition

Project Gutenberg

Credits

Produced by Laurent Vogel and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF/Gallica) at http://gallica.bnf.fr)

Release date

2020-09-08

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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