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Expected 1 Jan 04II volume raccoglie una scelta di testi di Valéry suddivisi in sezioni per genere letterario. La poesia è presente con i grandi testi che gli hanno dato fama, un'ampia raccolta delle poesie giovanili e una scelta delle poesie ritrovate nella corrispondenza con gli amici: versi finora ignoti, ove l'erotismo si fonde con la tenerezza. Accanto alla poesia, il Meridiano presenta un campione di prosa poetica, i grandi dialoghi, il teatro e un'ampia sezione di saggistica - dedicata all'arte, al pensiero astratto, ai problemi concreti del mondo attuale. Ma è la sezione "Modelli e strumenti del pensiero" a delineare il percorso del tutto personale di Valéry: da Monsieur Teste - che fece dello scrittore l'idolo dei surrealisti - al suo particolare Leonardo da Vinci, dall'analisi del funzionamento della mente condotta attraverso i Quaderni, alle riflessioni sulla creatività letteraria che hanno costituito il suo Corso di Poetica al Collège de France, totalmente inedito. Tutte le traduzioni sono nuove.
1771 pages, Hardcover
Expected publication January 1, 2104
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About the author
Paul Valéry
563 books459 followersAmbroise-Paul-Toussaint-Jules Valéry was a French poet, essayist, and philosopher. His interests were sufficiently broad that he can be classified as a polymath. In addition to his fiction (poetry, drama and dialogues), he also wrote many essays and aphorisms on art, history, letters, music, and current events.
Valéry is best known as a poet, and is sometimes considered to be the last of the French Symbolists. But he published fewer than a hundred poems, and none that drew much attention. On the night of 4 October 1892, during a heavy storm, Paul Valéry entered an existential crisis, which made a big impact on his writing career. Around 1898, his writing activity even came to a near-standstill, due partly to the death of his mentor Stéphane Mallarmé and for nearly twenty years from that time on, Valery did not publish a single word until 1917, when he finally broke this 'Great Silence' with the publication of La Jeune Parque at forty-six years of age. This obscure but superbly musical masterpiece, of 512 alexandrine lines in rhyming pairs, had taken him four years to complete, and immediately secured his fame. It is esteemed by many in France as the greatest French poem of the 20th century.
Valéry is best known as a poet, and is sometimes considered to be the last of the French Symbolists. But he published fewer than a hundred poems, and none that drew much attention. On the night of 4 October 1892, during a heavy storm, Paul Valéry entered an existential crisis, which made a big impact on his writing career. Around 1898, his writing activity even came to a near-standstill, due partly to the death of his mentor Stéphane Mallarmé and for nearly twenty years from that time on, Valery did not publish a single word until 1917, when he finally broke this 'Great Silence' with the publication of La Jeune Parque at forty-six years of age. This obscure but superbly musical masterpiece, of 512 alexandrine lines in rhyming pairs, had taken him four years to complete, and immediately secured his fame. It is esteemed by many in France as the greatest French poem of the 20th century.
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