Entre los escritos de Paul Valéry (1871-1945) destacan aquellos que tienen en el arte y la estética motivo fundamental: sus célebres diálogos El alma y la danza y Eupalinos o el arquitecto, de los que existen varias ediciones...
El Sócrates de André Jean Festugière (1898-1982) es un estudio clásico, escrito con la pasión del helenista y la convicción del creyente. Sus argumentos se inscriben en la corriente neoplatónica de raigambr...
Paul Valéry va anar més enllà de la filosofia literària encunyada per Edgar Allan Poe en la Philosophy of Composition i, més enllà d?analogies i comparacions, va insinuar, en aquest diàleg i en d?altres...
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, Prous...
This is an informal collection of essays and speeches on the writers who in one way or another counted for Val ry in the shaping of his mind or in his affections and interests: Descartes, Voltaire, Stendhal, Goethe, Villon, Nietzsche, Pascal, Proust, Huys...
Poems ranging from "La Jeune Parque" and "Le Cimetière marin" to occasional and light verse written as letters to friends, dedications in books, and inscriptions on ladies fans demonstrate the wide scope of Valérys lyric...
Grouped together in this book are several smaller volumes and plaquettes in which Valéry had published selections of his shorter prose writings: aphorisms, moral reflections, poetic observations, flashes of wit or fancy, even jokes-a variety of...
This collection of Valérys occasional pieces-speeches, interviews, articles-shows him very much as the public figure, the first in demand when an "occasion" needed a prominent person. Included are his speech before the French Academy on...
A selection of writings that portray the inner life of the 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 acquai...
All of the major meditations on the theory and practice of poetry by one of the greatest poets of our time--and perhaps the one who has most scrupulously analyzed his art--are included in The Art of Poetry.
Valérys essays on Leonardo, Poe, Mallarmé, and with these the "Teste Cycle," were that part of his work most central to his thought. The extensive selection included from his Notebooks is evidence of his enduring interest in these...
This collection of Valérys occasional pieces-speeches, interviews, articles-shows him very much as the public figure, the first in demand when an "occasion" needed a prominent person. Included are his speech before the French Academy on...
Includes some of Valérys finest strokes of imagination, Broken Stories ; some of his wittiest observations, Mixtures, Poems in the Rough ; and even two of his great poems, Parables and The Angel -all written in the form of prose.
A selection of writings that portray the inner life of the artist. Included are several short autobiographical pieces in which Val ry talks about his early childhood, his adolescence, his military experience, his travels, his poetry, and his acquaintances...