Teleny (Summarized Edition)

Teleny narrates the erotic obsession between the bourgeois narrator Camille Des Grieux and the pianist René Teleny in a sensuous, surveilled Paris. Its musical prose marries synesthetic detail to Decadent imagery, tracing a magnetism that deepens into catastrophe. Mixing Gothic intensities with boudoir candor, the novel probes secrecy, class, and the price of pleasure, standing as one of the earli...