Masters and Friends
The Collected Works of Paul Valery, Volume 9
Will be published approx. on 1. September 2026
Book
Paperback/Softback
448 pages
978-0-691-29332-5 (ISBN)
Description
A collection of Valery's essays and speeches on a wide range of philosophers, novelists, and poets
Masters and Friends is a collection of Paul Valery's essays and speeches on writers who shaped his mind, interests, and affections: Descartes, Voltaire, Stendhal, Goethe, Villon, Nietzsche, Pascal, Proust, Huysmans, Pierre Louys, Nerval, Rilke, Bergson, and others. The volume also includes an appendix of Valery's private comments on these writers in his Notebooks.
The Collected Works of Paul Valery, the first collected edition of the writer in English, features new translations, the original French on facing pages for poetic works, and editorial notes.
Masters and Friends is a collection of Paul Valery's essays and speeches on writers who shaped his mind, interests, and affections: Descartes, Voltaire, Stendhal, Goethe, Villon, Nietzsche, Pascal, Proust, Huysmans, Pierre Louys, Nerval, Rilke, Bergson, and others. The volume also includes an appendix of Valery's private comments on these writers in his Notebooks.
The Collected Works of Paul Valery, the first collected edition of the writer in English, features new translations, the original French on facing pages for poetic works, and editorial notes.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
New Jersey
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-691-29332-5 (9780691293325)
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