
PROSES MOROSES - DU MÊME AUTEUR
REMY DE GOURMONT - PROSES - MOROSES - A PARIS ÉDITION DU MERCVRE DE FRANCE XV, RUE DE L'ÉCHAUDÉ - Deuxième édition.
LIVRE I - QUELQUES UNS
DISTRACTION MATINALE
LA CLOISON
LES PETITS PAUVRES
LE RÊVE
LE RACHAT DES LAIDES
LA CHÈVRE BLONDE
LE PHONOGRAPHE
In a cramped Parisian shop, a polished yet predatory salesman drifts through a rain‑spattered morning, his words slick with false courtesy. He approaches a widowed mother clutching three trembling girls, offering glittering rings, brooches and a promise of relief for a modest sum. The exchange spirals between polite bargaining and thinly veiled intimidation, each sentence a delicate balance of charm and threat. As the woman’s hand trembles over the glass display, the reader senses an undercurrent of desperation that powers the whole scene.
The passage sets the tone for a larger meditation on the corrosive lure of wealth in a society teetering between decadence and ruin. Through vivid, almost theatrical dialogue, the author sketches characters whose morality is as fluid as the shutters opening to a gloomy street. Listeners will be drawn into the claustrophobic atmosphere, wondering how far the salesman’s calculations will go and what price the fragile family will ultimately pay.
Language
fr
Duration
~1 hours (67K characters)
Publisher of text edition
Project Gutenberg
Credits
Produced by Clarity, Pierre Lacaze and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries)
Release date
2018-08-17
Rights
Public domain in the USA.

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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