THE CHILL OF CONSCIOUSNESS, OR, MONSIEUR TESTE DEALS WITH SUFFERING (Chlód swiadomosci albo Monsieur Teste o cierpieniu)

• Authors: Musial Lukasz
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

This article deals with one of the major figures in the twentieth-century literature. Monsieur Teste was created by Paul Valéry and described in many of his short stories. This character appeared resulting from a peculiar literary experiment. Using an original character of this sort, Valéry resolved to describe the history of 'pure' consciousness. Teste is characterised by an 'inhuman' concentration of his mind, analytical approach to the world, and a desire to exercise complete control over his own solitary existence; an existence exposed to suffering, physical pain. A pain that will prove to be a real challenge to mathematical forms into which Monsieur Teste is willing to re-forge the reality around him.

Keywords

EN

LITERATURE (20TH C.); PAUL VALÉRY -MONSIEUR TESTE; PURE CONSCIOUSSNESS

Discipline

• PHILOLOGY_&_LINGUISTICS: PHILOLOGY & LINGUISTICS

• Publisher: Institute of Literary Research, Polish Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Teksty Drugie (Second Texts)
• Year: 2008
• Issue: 6(114)
• Pages: 127-144
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Musial Lukasz

• Lukasz Musial. Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza, Instytut Filologii Germanskiej, al. Niepodleglosci 4, 61-874 Poznan, Poland

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

09PLAAAA056113