
REMY DE GOURMONT
PÉHOR
LA ROBE BLANCHE
LE SECRET DE DON JUAN
LES FUGITIVES
LES YEUX D'EAU
LE SUAIRE
SUR LE SEUIL
LA MARGUERITE ROUGE
LA SŒUR DE SYLVIE - I
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.
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.

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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