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D'un pays lointain: Miracles; Visages de femmes; Anecdotes

Chapter 62: TABLE
By Remy de Gourmont
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A collection of short narratives and lyrical essays that blend fantasy, fable, and reflective observation. A recurring narrator flees a blind, conformist community and crosses a luminous forest, where symbolic encounters—a plucked soul likened to a flower and a fragile lover—trigger meditations on sight, desire, and individuality. Other pieces offer portraits of women, brief marvels, and anecdotal episodes that probe artistic feeling, moral hypocrisy, and the tension between curiosity and enforced uniformity. The prose shifts between dreamlike storytelling and philosophical asides, favoring evocative imagery and subtle ethical questioning.

TABLE

PROLOGUE
D’un Pays lointain
LIVRE I. — MIRACLES
I.
 Phocas
II.
 La Métamorphose de Diane
III.
 Régelinde
IV.
 L’ineffable Volonté
V.
 Hamadrias
VI.
 La Révolte de la Plèbe
VII.
 L’Accident royal
VIII.
 Mains de Reine
IX.
 L’Etable
X.
 La Ville des Sphinx
LIVRE II. — VISAGES DE FEMMES
I.
 Irmine
II.
 Phénice
III.
 Floriberte
IV.
 Rosule
V.
 La Femme en noir
VI.
 L’Intacte
VII.
 La Dame Pensive
VIII.
 Mélibée
IX.
 La Vierge aux Plâtres
X.
 L’Aventure d’une Vierge
XI.
 Tristane
LIVRE III. — ANECDOTES
I.
 Le Mauvais Moine
II.
 L’Evocateur
III.
 Jose et Josette
IV.
 Celui qui a tué
V.
 La Dernière Heure
VI.
 Emérence
VII.
 Le Château brûlé
VIII.
 L’Amateur
IX.
 Fin de promenade
X.
 La Sirène innocente
XI.
 Dialogue entre Harvède et une Ombre

Impr. d’Ouvriers Sourds-Muets. Paris.