Paul Valéry
Personal Information
Born October 30, 1871
Died July 20, 1945 (73 years old)
Sète, France
Also known as: Paul Valery, Paul Ambroise Valéry
28 books
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65 readers
Description
Paul Valery occupies a position in the history of French letters that is at once strategic and highly problematic. Critics have affixed to him various labels, all of them partially correct. He has been called the last French symbolist, the first post-symbolist, a masterful classical prosodist, an advocate of logical positivism, and a cerebral narcissist.
Books
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Essays
Jeremy Collier, Umberto Eco, H. I. D. Ryder, Arthur Penrhyn Stanley, Walter Kasper, Béla Bartók, Clement Mansfield Ingleby, John Fiske, John Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton, Jean-Luc Nancy, Michael Pye, Octavio Paz, Sayyid Aḥmad K̲h̲ān̲, Joseph Addison, Algirdas Julien Greimas, Евгений Иванович Замятин, Henry F. (Henry Francis) Pelham, Arthur Christopher Benson, Grant, Percy Stickney, Charles Carroll Everett, Jean François Lyotard, Herbert Spencer, Raymond Williams, William Hazlitt, Giorgio Agamben, Alfred Kerr, Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Blok, William Butler Yeats, William Graham Sumner, Allen Tate, James Beattie, J. H. Plumb, William Godwin, Francis Bacon, Henry David Thoreau, Henry Thomas Buckle, Arthur Schopenhauer, Herman Friedrich Grimm, John Addington Symonds, James Hadley, James Laughlin, Joseph Isaac Schneersohn, Irving Howe, E. M. W. Tillyard, Benjamin Rush, Plutarch, Morton Feldman, Simone Weil, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Howard Zinn, Ellen Key, Salisbury, Robert Cecil marquess of, J. Logie Robertson, Oliver Goldsmith, Thomas Henry Huxley, Arnold Zweig, Hugh Miller, Mackenzie, Morell Sir, George Orwell, Bing Xin, Roland Barthes, Errico Malatesta, George John Romanes, Parsons, Theophilus, Alice Meynell, Alejo Carpentier, Charles Baudelaire, Jacques Barzun, James Huneker, Thomas Paine, Thomas Merton, Jean-Paul Sartre, Montaigne, Michel de, David Hume, Paul Valéry, Félix Guattari, Wilhelm Max Wundt, Christopher Hill, Shen, Congwen, Italo Calvino, Robert Morgan, James Martineau, Abūlkalām Āzād, Friedrich Schiller, Rosemond Tuve, René Descartes, Immanuel Kant, Joseph Alois Schumpeter, Carl Gustav Jung, John Henry Newman, Thomas De Quincey, Virginia Woolf, Matthew Arnold, Frederic William Henry Myers, Ernst Troeltsch, Martin Buber, Hermann Bahr, Thomas Mann, Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve, Jonathan Franzen, Samuel Johnson, Anscombe, G. E. M., Charles Lamb, George Brimley, John Abercrombie, Thomas Monro, Hubert Bland
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The idea of perfection
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"Harley Savage is a plain, rawboned woman, a part-time museum curator and quilting expert with three failed marriages and a heart condition. Douglas Cheeseman is a shy, gawky engineer with jug-handle ears, one marriage gone sour, and a crippling lack of physical courage. Seeming to be incompetent was something Douglas did to protect himself, just as having a "dangerous streak" served the same purpose for Harley." -- Jacket.
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Niccolò Machiavelli, Kobayashi, Hideo, Gabriel García Márquez, Octavio Paz, Confucius, Александр Исаевич Солженицын, Guy de Maupassant, Doris Lessing, Colette, Rasipuram Krishnaswamy Narayan, Jorge Luis Borges, 川端康成, Primo Levi, Heinrich Böll, Arthur Rimbaud, Czesław Miłosz, Tu Fu, Πλάτων, Margaret Atwood, Sophocles, Giovanni Boccaccio, Franz Kafka, Rubén Darío, Ovid, Pak, Tu-jin, Marie de France, William Shakespeare, Julio Cortázar, Isak Dinesen, Christopher Marlowe, Όμηρος, Sei Shōnagon, Omar Khayyam, Günter Grass, Pär Lagerkvist, François Villon, Rabindranath Tagore, Jean de La Fontaine, Albert Camus, Александр Сергеевич Пушкин, Chrétien de Troyes, Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko, Pierre de Ronsard, Wole Soyinka, Stanisław Lem, Derek Walcott, Jonathan Swift, Лев Толстой, Pablo Neruda, Gabriela Mistral, Charles Baudelaire, Victor Hugo, Henrik Ibsen, William Wordsworth, Rainer Maria Rilke, Boris Leonidovich Pasternak, Luigi Pirandello, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Heinrich Heine, Buson Yosa, Paul Valéry, Yoshida Kenko, Italo Calvino, Николай Васильевич Гоголь, Yehuda Amichai, Dante Alighieri, Антон Павлович Чехов, Thomas Mann, John Milton, Komachi Ono, Federico García Lorca, Ōgai Mōri, Bessie Head, Blaise Pascal, Tsurayuki Ki
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Monsieur Teste
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Although not autobiographical in any usual sense, Valéry's novel is profoundly personal. Monsieur Teste reflects Valéry's preoccupation with the phenomenon of a mind detached from sensibility, yet he is also an ordinary fictional character. This volume includes "Snapshots of Monsieur Teste," excerpts from Valéry's Cahiers.
Plays
Terence Rattigan, A. R. Gurney, Jean Anouilh, Alexandre Dumas, Nathalie Sarraute, Gerhart Hauptmann, Augustin Daly, Eugene O'Neill, Tony Kushner, William Gillette, Fanny Kemble, Marguerite Yourcenar, Heinrich von Kleist, Augusta Gregory, Bale, John, Sophocles, Tom Murphy, Hrotsvitha, Johnston, Denis, Sean O'Casey, John Ashbery, Noël Coward, Euripides, August Strindberg, Richard Hughes, Micheál Mac Liammóir, Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de Marivaux, Arnold Wesker, Christopher Marlowe, Titus Maccius Plautus, Arthur Miller, Sam Shepard, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Philip Ridley, Dion Boucicault, John Davidson, Aleksandr Nikolaevich Ostrovsky, Jacinto Benavente, Henry J. Byron, William Ernest Henley, Maurice Baring, Ramón del Valle Inclán, Arthur Wing Pinero, Edward Albee, Caryl Churchill, Леонид Николаевич Андреев, Cyril Tourneur, Лев Толстой, Charles Reade, Vittorio Alfieri, Henry Arthur Jones, Aeschylus, Clyde Fitch, Oscar Wilde, Frederick Reynolds, Georg Kaiser, Luigi Pirandello, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Peretz Hirschbein, Jean-Paul Sartre, William Wycherley, David Edgar, Harley Granville-Barker, J. R. Planché, Henry Fielding, David Mamet, Paul Valéry, Francis Beaumont, G. B. Harrison, Michael Frayn, Sebastian Barry, Gil Vicente, Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, Friedrich Schiller, Vanbrugh, John Sir, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Максим Горький, Lanford Wilson, Molière, John Galsworthy, Federico García Lorca, Richard Greenberg, Barrett Wendell, William Somerset Maugham, Susan Glaspell, Fernando Arrabal, Clifford Odets, Corregidor
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