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    The Collected Works of Paul Valéry, Volume 6

    de Paul Valéry ...
    Traducido por Jackson Mathews ...
    Series series Bollingen Recollections
    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 novel is a profoundly ... Leer más

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  • History and Politics

    The Collected Works of Paul Valéry, Volume 10

    Series series Bollingen Recollections
    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 some sixty of Valéry ... Leer más

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  • Idée Fixe

    The Collected Works of Paul Valéry, Volume 5

    Traducido por David Paul ...
    Series series Bollingen Recollections
    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 the first-person ... Leer más

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  • Moi

    The Collected Works of Paul Valéry, Volume 15

    de Paul Valéry ...
    Traducido por Marthiel Mathews, Jackson Mathews ...
    Series series Bollingen Recollections
    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 Valéry-Gide and Valéry ... Leer más

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  • Flowers of Evil

    A Selection

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    Baudelaire's Fleurs du Mal, which in successive editions contained all of his published poems, has opened new vistas for man's imagination and quickened the sensibilities of poets everywhere.The greatest French poet of the 19th century, Baudelaire was also the first truly modem poet, and his direct and indirect influence on the literature of our time has been immeasurable.Flowers of Evil: A ... Leer más

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    Philosopher Without Faith

    Professor Albérès in this well-ordered volume traces through successive works the elaboration of various concepts now linked to French Existentialism—anguish, nausea, hypocrisy, lucidity, consciousness, conformity, commitment, ethical values, situation, etc.Translated from the French by Wade Baskin. ... Leer más

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  • Paratexts

    Thresholds of Interpretation

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    Series Libro 20 - Literature, Culture, Theory
    Paratexts are those liminal devices and conventions, both within and outside the book, that form part of the complex mediation between book, author, publisher and reader: titles, forewords, epigraphs and publishers' jacket copy are part of a book's private and public history. In this first English translation of Paratexts, Gérard Genette shows how the special pragmatic status of paratextual ... Leer más

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  • Rules

    A Short History of What We Live By

    Series series The Lawrence Stone Lectures
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