La vie littéraire. Deuxième série

A series of newspaper causeries and essays in which the author combines personal confession, literary criticism, and philosophical reflection. He recounts his habit of candid self-revelation, embraces the coexistence of contradictory beliefs, and surveys contemporary literary trends, especially symbolist mysticism and its synaesthetic claims about sound and color. The essays balance skeptical distance and aesthetic sympathy, examining the tastes, excesses, and novel poetic experiments of younger writers, while offering meditations on the nature of art, truth, and the reader's response across a range of short critical studies and personal anecdotes.