Collected Works of Paul Valery – serie

Valery's dialogues are considered his most important works of imagination in prose. This title brings together all the formal dialogues, including Eupalinos and six other pieces.

All of author's major meditations on the theory and practice of poetry are included in this volume. He focuses his attention on the deliberate formal work that transforms the dream into the poem, in his own poems, as well as in analyses of La Fontaine, Victor Hugo, Baudelaire, the Symbolists, Mallarme, Rimbaud, and others.

Essays discuss issues in twentieth century politics.

A novel that reflects the author's preoccupation with the phenomenon of a mind detached from sensibility, yet he is also an ordinary fictional character.