The Idea of Perfection: the Poetry and Prose of Paul Valery - Hardcover Book
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| Management number | 24355 | Release Date | 2025/07/06 | List Price | $21.00 | Model Number | 24355 | ||
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The Idea of Perfection: the Poetry and Prose of Paul Valery
a bilingual edition translated by Nathaniel Rudavsky-Brody
hardcover in very good used condition
Heir to Mallarmé and the symbolists, godfather to the modernists, Paul Valéry was a poet with thousands of readers and few followers, great resonance and little echo. Along with Rilke and Eliot, he stands as a bridge between the tradition of the nineteenth century and the novelty of the twentieth. His reputation as a poet rests on three slim volumes published in a span of only ten years. Yet these poems, it turns out, are inseparable from another, much vaster intellectual and artistic enterprise: the Notebooks. Behind the published works, behind the uneventful life of the almost forgotten and then exceedingly famous poet, there hides another story, a private life of the mind, that has its record in 28,000 pages of notes revealed in their entirety only after his death.
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