Masters and Friends: The Collected Works of Paul Valéry, Volume 9 (Bollingen Recollections)

Masters and Friends: The Collected Works of Paul Valéry, Volume 9 (Bollingen Recollections)

Paul Valéry, Martin Turnell (Translator), Joseph Frank (Introduction by)
$100.00
Publish Date:
Publisher:
Princeton University Press
ISBN:
9780691293332
Pages:
448
Language:
English

Description

A collection of Val ry's essays and speeches on a wide range of philosophers, novelists, and poets

Masters and Friends is a collection of Paul Val ry's essays and speeches on writers who shaped his mind, interests, and affections: Descartes, Voltaire, Stendhal, Goethe, Villon, Nietzsche, Pascal, Proust, Huysmans, Pierre Louÿs, Nerval, Rilke, Bergson, and others. The volume also includes an appendix of Val ry's private comments on these writers in his Notebooks.

The Collected Works of Paul Val ry, the first collected edition of the writer in English, features new translations, the original French on facing pages for poetic works, and editorial notes.

About the Author

Paul Valéry (1871-1945) was a French poet, essayist, and critic and a major figure in twentieth-century literature. In addition to his poetry, his best-known works include the novel Monsieur Teste and his posthumously published Notebooks.

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