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  • Audiobook

    100 Quotes by Paul Valéry

    by Paul Valéry, Paul Valéry ...
    Narrated by Brad Carty ...

    Unabridged

    19 min

    '100 Quotes by Paul Valéry' is a collection of thoughts, witticisms, and observations by one of France's greatest poets.Packed with dry, pithy, and often-touching sayings about subjects such as art, music, letters, and writing, it puts his singular approach to life, front and centre.A superb book for a leisurely browse, this is a welcome addition to any library or coffee table. ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Dance And The Soul

    by Paul Valéry ...
    Translated by Will Johncock ...
    A new translation from the French of Paul Valéry's L'Âme et La Danse (1925). In this work, Valéry interrogates the dualist relations between body and mind, movement and thought, and dance and philosophy. Valéry employs a mock Platonic dialogue to explore these themes, in which Socrates, Phaedrus, and Eryximachus observe dancers.Best known as a poet, Valéry (1871-1945) also published books, essays, ... Read more

    $5.39 CAD

  • Monsieur Teste

    by Paul Valéry ...
    Translated by Charlotte Mandell ...
    A defining work of twentieth-century modernism, now newly translated—a philosophical novel about the nature of consciousness, all centered around a character who is composed of absolute brain and intellect, a character of pure mind.In 1892, during an intense thunderstorm, the great Symbolist poet Paul Valéry underwent an existential crisis. For the next twenty years, he wrote no poetry, devoting ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

  • The Idea of Perfection

    The Poetry and Prose of Paul Valéy

    by Paul Valéry ...
    Translated by Nathaniel Rudavsky-Brody ...
    Discover the poetic mastery and intellectual depth of Paul Valéry, the symbolist heir and modernist godfather who bridged the 19th and 20th centuries.In this fresh look at the monumental work of one of the major French literary figures of the twentieth century, The Idea of Perfection presents both sides of Paul Valéry: the craftsman of sublimely refined verse, and the fervent investigator of the ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Monsieur Teste

    The Collected Works of Paul Valéry, Volume 6

    by Paul Valéry ...
    Translated by 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 ... Read more

    Was $32.99 CAD Now $27.49 CAD

  • An Anthology

    The Collected Works of Paul Valéry, Volume 16

    by Paul Valéry ...
    Series series Bollingen Recollections
    A compelling selection of Valéry’s poetry and proseDrawn from the authoritative Collected Works of Paul Valéry, this anthology offers an introduction to the diverse genius of this important poet and essayist. The volume features “The Evening with Monsieur Teste” (1896), from Jackson Mathews’s National Book Award–winning translation of the novel Monsieur Teste. It includes such notable essays as ... Read more

    $38.49 CAD

  • Poems

    The Collected Works of Paul Valéry, Volume 1

    by Paul Valéry ...
    Translated by David Paul ...
    Series series Bollingen Recollections
    An authoritative bilingual edition of the great French poetPaul Valéry was one of the most important poets of the twentieth century. This bilingual volume, which features the English translations facing the French texts, demonstrates the wide range of Valéry’s poetry, from lyric masterpieces such as “La Jeune Parque” and “Le Cimetière marin” to occasional and light verse written as letters to ... Read more

    $49.49 CAD

  • Occasions

    The Collected Works of Paul Valéry, Volume 11

    by Paul Valéry ...
    Translated by Frederick Brown, Roger Shattuck ...
    Series series Bollingen Recollections
    A collection of Valéry’s occasional writingsThis selection of Paul Valéry’s occasional pieces—speeches, interviews, and articles—reveals his life as a public figure in constant demand. Included are his speech upon his reception to the French Academy; his address welcoming Marshal Pétain into the same body; memorial addresses honoring Émile Verhaeren and Henri Brémond; an article on the “Future of ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • Moi

    The Collected Works of Paul Valéry, Volume 15

    by Paul Valéry ...
    Translated by 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 ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Plays

    The Collected Works of Paul Valéry, Volume 3

    by Paul Valéry ...
    Translated by David Paul, Robert Fitzgerald ...
    Series series Bollingen Recollections
    Valéry’s complete writings for the theaterThis volume gathers all of Paul Valéry’s writings for the theater. It includes My Faust, Valéry’s last major work, which is composed of two unfinished Faust plays, Luste, or the Crystal Girl and The Only One. Plays also presents three allegorical verse plays that were written for music and performed at the Paris Opera: Amphion and Semiramis, with music by ... Read more

    $38.49 CAD

  • Aesthetics

    The Collected Works of Paul Valéry, Volume 13

    by Paul Valéry ...
    Translated by Ralph Manheim ...
    Series series Bollingen Recollections
    A collection of Valéry’s writings on the making of “works of the mind”—in art, philosophy, history, and scienceFor Paul Valéry, art consisted of all that the mind makes for its own pleasure and use, not only works of art in the usual sense but also philosophy, history, and the pure sciences—in his words, all the “works of the mind.” This volume presents the opening lecture of his “Course in ... Read more

    $38.49 CAD

  • Poems in the Rough

    The Collected Works of Paul Valéry, Volume 2

    Translated by Hilary Corke ...
    by Paul Valéry ...
    Series series Bollingen Recollections
    A collection of Valéry’s prose poemsPaul Valéry began writing poems in various forms of prose and free verse as early as 1892, with Pure Dramas, and continued to do so throughout his life, even during his so-called period of silence, when he had given up writing formal verse. This volume of Valéry’s prose poems includes some of his finest strokes of imagination (Broken Stories), some of his ... Read more

    $38.49 CAD