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  • Poems in the Rough
    Paul Valéry / Hilary Corke
    A collection of Valéry’s prose poemsPaul Valéry began writing poems in various forms of prose and free verse as early as 1892, with Pure Dramas, and continued to do so throughout his life, even during his so-called period of silence, when he had given up writing formal verse. This volume of Valéry’s prose poems includes some of his finest strokes of imagination (Broken Stories)...
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    41,62 €

  • Leonardo, Poe, Mallarmé
    Paul Valéry / James R. Lawler / Malcolm Cowley
    A collection of Valéry’s essays on three artists who were of central importance to himPaul Valéry had an enduring fascination with Leonardo, Poe, and Mallarmé and his essays on these fellow artists are among his most important writings. This volume presents those essays along with extensive selections on these figures from Valéry’s Notebooks. Valéry’s Leonardo and Poe were almo...
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    47,22 €

  • Poems
    Paul Valéry / David Paul
    An authoritative bilingual edition of the great French poetPaul Valéry was one of the most important poets of the twentieth century. This bilingual volume, which features the English translations facing the French texts, demonstrates the wide range of Valéry’s poetry, from lyric masterpieces such as “La Jeune Parque” and “Le Cimetière marin” to occasional and light verse writte...
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    53,29 €

  • Plays
    Paul Valéry / David Paul / Robert Fitzgerald
    Valéry’s complete writings for the theaterThis volume gathers all of Paul Valéry’s writings for the theater. It includes My Faust, Valéry’s last major work, which is composed of two unfinished Faust plays, Luste, or the Crystal Girl and The Only One. Plays also presents three allegorical verse plays that were written for music and performed at the Paris Opera: Amphion and Semir...
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    41,43 €

  • Dialogues
    Paul Valéry / William McCausland Stewart
    A collection of Valéry’s dialogues, which are among his most important works of the imagination in proseDialogues came naturally to Paul Valéry, providing the common ground between imagination and philosophy that he was always seeking. He called the dialogue “the most supple of the forms of expression,” saying that “I found I was talking to myself in two voices, and began to wr...
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    35,96 €

  • Idée Fixe
    Paul Valéry / David Paul
    An informal dialogue of ideas in which Valéry paints a witty portrait of himselfOffhand, personal, and amusing, Paul Valéry’s Idée Fixe is an informal imaginative dialogue of ideas in which two men vacationing at the sea seek refuge from boredom by engaging in intellectual banter about human nature, the mind, and the haphazard relationship between humans and the world. Since th...
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    30,11 €

  • Monsieur Teste
    Paul Valéry / Jackson Mathews
    The National Book Award–winning translation of Valéry’s singular novel, a strange and powerful philosophical exploration of human consciousnessPaul Valéry was obsessed with exploring the conscious mind, and it was this preoccupation that produced the unusual masterpiece of modern fiction that is Monsieur Teste. Although not autobiographical in any usual sense, Valéry’s only nov...
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    29,99 €

  • The Art of Poetry
    Paul Valéry / Denise Folliot
    An authoritative collection of Valéry’s important essays on poetryThis volume collects all of Paul Valéry’s major meditations on the theory and practice of poetry. These pieces range from his first essay, “On Literary Technique” (1889), to his last, “Variations on the Eclogues” (1944). Among them are essays on his own work and that of other poets, on “pure poetry,” on the speak...
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    41,56 €

  • Masters and Friends
    Paul Valéry / Martin Turnell
    A collection of Valéry’s essays and speeches on a wide range of philosophers, novelists, and poetsMasters and Friends is a collection of Paul Valéry’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 ...
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    47,35 €

  • History and Politics
    Paul Valéry / Denise Folliot / Jackson Mathews
    A collection of Valéry writings on politics and international affairsPaul Valéry was deeply interested in politics and actively involved in international affairs as a spokesperson for the League of Nations and as France’s representative to two of the League’s bodies—the Committee on Intellectual Co-operation and the Permanent Committee on Arts and Letters. This volume presents ...
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    64,86 €

  • Occasions
    Paul Valéry / Frederick Brown / Roger Shattuck
    A collection of Valéry’s occasional writingsThis selection of Paul Valéry’s occasional pieces—speeches, interviews, and articles—reveals his life as a public figure in constant demand. Included are his speech upon his reception to the French Academy; his address welcoming Marshal Pétain into the same body; memorial addresses honoring Émile Verhaeren and Henri Brémond; an articl...
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    35,74 €

  • Degas, Manet, Morisot
    Paul Valéry / David Paul
    A collection of Valéry’s writings on the visual arts, including his book on his friend Degas and his personal recollection of RenoirPaul Valéry spent as much of his life among painters as writers—in a house filled with the memory and works of Berthe Morisot and her friends Manet, Degas, and Renoir, and where Degas and Renoir were still familiar guests. Degas cherished Valéry as...
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    35,67 €

  • Aesthetics
    Paul Valéry / Ralph Manheim
    A collection of Valéry’s writings on the making of “works of the mind”—in art, philosophy, history, and scienceFor Paul Valéry, art consisted of all that the mind makes for its own pleasure and use, not only works of art in the usual sense but also philosophy, history, and the pure sciences—in his words, all the “works of the mind.” This volume presents the opening lecture of h...
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    41,77 €

  • Analects
    Paul Valéry / Stuart Gilbert
    A collection of Valéry’s shorter prose writingsThis book brings together smaller volumes and booklets in which Paul Valéry published selections of his shorter prose writings: aphorisms, moral reflections, poetic observations, flashes of wit or fancy, even jokes—a variety of remarks and impressions, many of them first recorded in his Notebooks.The Collected Works of Paul Valéry,...
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    65,04 €

  • Moi
    Paul Valéry / Jackson Mathews / Marthiel Mathews
    A collection of Valéry’s autobiographical writingsMoi presents a selection of Paul Valéry’s writings that portray his inner life as an artist. Included are several short autobiographical pieces in which Valéry talks about his early childhood, his adolescence, his military experience, his travels, his poetry, and his acquaintances. The volume also contains selections from the Va...
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    47,41 €

  • An Anthology
    Paul Valéry
    A compelling selection of Valéry’s poetry and proseDrawn from the authoritative Collected Works of Paul Valéry, this anthology offers an introduction to the diverse genius of this important poet and essayist. The volume features “The Evening with Monsieur Teste” (1896), from Jackson Mathews’s National Book Award–winning translation of the novel Monsieur Teste. It includes such ...
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    41,53 €

  • Variete IV
    Paul Valéry
    'Variete IV' is a profound collection of essays by the renowned French polymath Paul Valéry, offering a meticulous exploration into the nature of the human mind, the complexities of literature, and the philosophical underpinnings of art. In this installment of his celebrated series, Valéry applies his characteristic precision and intellectual rigor to a diverse range of subject...
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    25,20 €

  • Introduction to the Method of Leonardo Da Vinci
    Paul Valéry
    'Introduction to the Method of Leonardo Da Vinci' is a profound exploration of the creative and intellectual processes of one of history’s greatest polymaths. Written by the celebrated poet and philosopher Paul Valéry, this work transcends mere biography to investigate the very nature of genius and the mechanics of thought. Valéry delves into the 'method' behind Da Vinci’s dive...
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    17,57 €

  • Dance And The Soul
    Paul Valery / Will Johncock
    A new translation from the French of Paul Valéry’s L’Âme et La Danse (1925). In this work, Valéry interrogates the dualist relations between body and mind, movement and thought, and dance and philosophy. Valéry employs a mock Platonic dialogue to explore these themes, in which Socrates, Phaedrus, and Eryximachus observe dancers.Best known as a poet, Valéry (1871-1945) also publ...
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    4,88 €

  • Le déclin, la crise et le chaos
    Jacques Bainville / Paul Valery / René Guénon
    Les auteurs qui figurent dans ce recueil ont en commun d’avoir été en leur temps des intellectuels influents qui se sont interrogés sur les changements opérés dans la société occidentale à la suite de la révolution industrielle et des bouleversements démographiques, sociologiques et politiques qui en ont découlé à la charnière du XIXe et du XXe siècle. Valery écrit avec pertine...
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    17,25 €

  • Introduction à la méthode de Léonard de Vinci
    Paul Valéry
    ... Il reste d’un homme ce que donnent à songer son nom et les œuvres qui font de ce nom un signe d’admiration, de haine ou d’indifférence. Nous pensons qu’il a pensé, et nous pouvons retrouver entre ses œuvres cette pensée qui lui vient de nous : nous pouvons refaire cette pensée à l’image de la nôtre. Aisément, nous nous représentons un homme ordinaire : de simples souvenirs ...
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    9,81 €

  • Le Cycle de Monsieur Teste
    Paul Valéry
    «... M. Teste avait peut-être quarante ans. Sa parole était extraordinairement rapide, et sa voix sourde. Tout s’effaçait en lui, les yeux, les mains. Il avait pourtant les épaules militaires, et le pas d’une régularité qui étonnait. Quand il parlait, il ne levait jamais un bras ni un doigt : il avait tué la marionnette. Il ne souriait pas, ne disait ni bonjour ni bonsoir ; il ...
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    7,53 €

  • Mauvaises pensées et autres
    Paul Valéry
    Dans ce livre, Paul Valéry nous livre ses Mauvaises pensées, parfois en vrac, des pensées courtes, drôles et percutantes : “Adieu dit le mourant au miroir qu’on lui tend, nous ne nous verrons plus”, ou bien “Qu’est-ce qu’un sot ? – Peut-être ce n’est qu’un esprit peu exigeant, qui se contente de peu. Un sot serait-il un sage ?”... ...
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    9,69 €

  • La Cantate du Narcisse
    Paul Valéry
    L’argument de cette cantate montre Narcisse insensible au charme des nymphes et amoureux de son seul reflet. Les nymphes finissent par le mettre à mort. C’est la punition des dieux pour cet amour-inceste dans lequel s’entête Narcisse. ...
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    7,44 €

  • Discours sur l’Esthétique
    Paul Valéry
    «... Je vous déclare tout d’abord que le nom seul de l’Esthétique m’a toujours véritablement émerveillé, et qu’il produit encore sur moi un effet d’éblouissement, si ce n’est d’intimidation. Il me fait hésiter l’esprit entre l’idée étrangement séduisante d’une « Science du Beau », qui, d’une part, nous ferait discerner à coup sûr ce qu’il faut aimer, ce qu’il faut haïr, ce qu’i...
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    8,02 €

  • Regards sur le monde actuel
    Paul Valéry
    «... Je n’avais jamais songé qu’il existât véritablement une Europe. Ce nom ne m’était qu’une expression géographique. Nous ne pensons que par hasard aux circonstances permanentes de notre vie ; nous ne les percevons qu’au moment qu’elles s’altèrent tout à coup. J’aurai l’occasion de montrer tout à l’heure à quel point notre inconscience à l’égard des conditions les plus simple...
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    8,48 €

  • Première leçon du cours de poétique
    Paul Valéry
    «... Tous les arts admettaient, naguère, d’être soumis chacun selon sa nature, à certaines formes ou modes obligatoires qui s’imposaient à toutes les œuvres du même genre, et qui pouvaient et devaient s’apprendre, comme l’on fait la syntaxe d’une langue. On ne consentait pas que les effets qu’une œuvre peut produire, si puissants ou si heureux fussent-ils, fussent des gages suf...
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    7,32 €

  • Eupalinos
    Paul Valéry
    Au royaume des Morts, Phèdre retrouve Socrate, abîmé dans la contemplation du fleuve du Temps. Il lui rappelle le souvenir de l'architecte Eupalinos, constructeur du temple d'Artémis, avec lequel il s'était lié et qui réussissait, selon ses propres termes, à faire 'chanter les édifices'... ...
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    9,66 €

  • La jeune Parque
    Paul Valery
    La Jeune Parque, (French: ?The Young Fate?) poem by Paul Val?ry, published in 1917. An enigmatic work noted for both its difficulty and its formal beauty, it presents in 500 lines the musings of Clotho, the youngest of the three Fates, as she stands at the seashore just before dawn. She stands uncertain whether to remain a serene immortal or to choose the pains and pleasures of...
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    14,10 €

  • Collected Works of Paul Valery, Volume 9
    Paul Valéry
    This is an informal collection of essays and speeches on the writers who in one way or another counted for Valéry in the shaping of his mind or in his affections and interests: Descartes, Voltaire, Stendhal, Goethe, Villon, Nietzsche, Pascal, Proust, Huysmans, Pierre Louÿs, Nerval, Rilke, Bergson, and others. The volume presents, in an appendix, the first publication in English...
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    92,63 €


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