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La joven Parca; El cementerio marino (Letras Universales / Universal Writings)
"La joven Parca" y "El cementerio marino" son para T. S. Eliot los dos triunfos de Paul Valéry. En las dos obras se trata el tópico de "el despertar de una conciencia durante una noche". Esta edición ofrece un exhaustivo comentario de "El cementerio marino", su musicalidad, métrica, metáforas, estructura, temas, así como una muestra comparativa de traducción de la octava estrofa en cuarenta y dos versiones diferentes (treinta y cinco en castellano y siete en catalán).
- GenresPoetry
256 pages, Paperback
First published June 30, 1999
About the author
Paul Valéry
633 books488 followersAmbroise-Paul-Toussaint-Jules Valéry (October 30, 1871 - July 20, 1945 ) 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.
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.
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February 19, 2024El cementerio marino es un gran poema y algún otro de esta colección también me ha conmovido mucho. En cuanto a La joven parca, no puedo decir lo mismo: ni lo he entendido ni me ha transmitido nada estimulante. Reconozco la calidad literaria de Valéry, pero quizá su estilo poético no sea el que mejor me cuadre.
April 1, 2017
Claro discípulo de Mallarmé, se quedó con lo peor del maestro (adjetivos exangües), como los malos discípulos de los grandes artistas. Es completamente comprensible que el propio Valéry se sintiera un cero a la izquierda comparado con Rimbaud, pues inteligente y sabio como fue para la filosofía, de poeta no tuvo gran cosa (pero esto lo explica mejor Cioran en «Emil Cioran, Ejercicios de admiración y otros textos», Tusquets, Barcelona, 1995, págs. 150 y 151, traducción de Rafael Panizo). A Dalí tampoco le gustaba (¡gracias!).
Este verso inmortal, sin embargo, es digno de Hugo, Baudelaire, Lautréamont...:
« La mer, la mer, toujours recommencée. »
Este verso inmortal, sin embargo, es digno de Hugo, Baudelaire, Lautréamont...:
« La mer, la mer, toujours recommencée. »
November 25, 2018
Δεν ξέρω αν θα πρέπει να βαθμιλογισω αυτό το βιβλίο ως έργο του Valery ή του Γιανναρά. Από τις 160 σελίδες μόλις οι 56 είναι με στίχους του Valery και οι υπόλοιπες είναι ερμηνευτικά και κατευθυντήρια σχόλια του Γιανναρά. Λοιπόν ποιο από τα δύο έργα να βαθμιλογισω; Με κουράζει αφάνταστα αυτή η μασημένη τροφή που σου υπαγορεύει τι και πως πρέπει να καταλάβεις από το έργο ενός άλλου συγγραφέα/ποιητή. Βασικά θυμώνω με μένα, γιατί σε μικρότερη ηλικία θα είχα την διαύγεια να παρακαμψω αμέσως την κατά τα αλλά αξιόλογη μελέτη του Γιανναρά, και να μιλήσω απευθείας στον Valery.
3/5 για Τίνας Γιανναρά + μπόνους για τον Παρασχο και τον Παναγιωτόπουλο
4/5 για τον Valery
3/5 για Τίνας Γιανναρά + μπόνους για τον Παρασχο και τον Παναγιωτόπουλο
4/5 για τον Valery
July 8, 2024
Los comentarios de Valery, god. Pero el resto de...
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