Paul Valéry

Il reste d'un homme ce que donnent songer son nom, et les oeuvres qui font de ce nom un signe d'admiration, de haine ou d'indiff rence. Nous pensons qu'il a pens , et nous pouvons retrouver entre ses oeuvres cette pens e qui lui vient de nous: nous pouvons refaire cette pens e l'image de la n tre. Ais ment, nous nous repr sentons un homme ordinaire: de simples souvenirs en ressuscitent les mobiles et les r actions l mentaires. Parmi les actes indiff rents qui constituent l'ext rieur de son existence, nous trouvons la m me suite qu'entre les n tres; nous en sommes le lien aussi bien que lui, et le cercle d'activit que son tre sugg re ne d borde pas de celui qui nous appartient. Si nous faisons que cet individu excelle en quelque point, nous en aurons plus de mal nous figurer les travaux et les chemins de son esprit. Pour ne pas nous borner l'admirer confus ment, nous serons contraints d' tendre dans un sens notre imagination de la propri t qui domine en lui, et dont nous ne poss dons, sans doute, que le germe. Mais si toutes les facult s de l'esprit choisi sont largement d velopp es la fois, ou si les restes de son action paraissent consid rables dans tous les genres, la figure en devient de plus en plus difficile saisir dans son unit et tend chapper notre effort.

Pervyj v Rossii dvujazychnyj sbornik stikhotvorenij Polja Valeri (1871-1945) vkljuchaet polnyj russkij perevod knigi "Charmes" (1922) (kuda vkhodjat takie shedevry frantsuzskoj poezii, kak "Kladbische nad morem", "Pifija", "Shagi" i "Palma"), nebolshogo sobranija "Neskolko stikhotvorenij raznykh epokh" i posmertnogo tsikla "Dvenadtsat stikhotvorenij", a takzhe Stikhotvorenija iz sensatsionnoj posmertnoj knigi Valeri "Korona. Koronijja. Stikhi Zhanu Vuale" (2008) - unikalnogo svoda ljubovnoj liriki, sozdannogo velikim frantsuzskim poetom v poslednie vosem let zhizni. Pol Valerii, polnoe imja - Ambruaz Pol Tussen Zhjul Valeri (Ambroise Paul Toussaint Jules Valry) (1871-1945) - frantsuzskij poet, esseist, filosof. Izvesten ne tolko svoimi stikhami i prozoj, no i kak avtor mnogochislennykh esse i aforizmov, posvjaschennykh iskusstvu, istorii, literature, muzyke. Perevodchik: Kokotov Aleksej

El t tulo de este libro implica un desaf o que es de por s una apuesta. Pues al combinar dos t rminos -libertad y esp ritu- no casualmente pasados de moda, resalta a la esperanza en tanto valor de posibilidad, aun en medio de la grave y destructiva crisis existencial de nuestra hora. Esta combinaci n, en apariencia ins lita, de los escritos de dos autores casi antag nicos en la cultura francesa del siglo XX, se torna por lo tanto restauradora en la medida en que vincula lo polarizado y consigue con los extremos opuestos una nueva circularidad reflexiva.

This is an informal collection of essays and speeches on the writers who in one way or another counted for Valery in the shaping of his mind or in his affections and interests: Descartes, Voltaire, Stendhal, Goethe, Villon, Nietzsche, Pascal, Proust, Huysmans, Pierre Louys, Nerval, Rilke, Bergson, and others. The volume presents, in an appendix, the first publication in English of any extensive selection from Valery's personal notebooks--the Cahiers. Originally published in 1968. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

This is an informal collection of essays and speeches on the writers who in one way or another counted for Valery in the shaping of his mind or in his affections and interests: Descartes, Voltaire, Stendhal, Goethe, Villon, Nietzsche, Pascal, Proust, Huysmans, Pierre Louys, Nerval, Rilke, Bergson, and others. The volume presents, in an appendix, the first publication in English of any extensive selection from Valery's personal notebooks--the Cahiers. Originally published in 1968. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

This collection of Valery's occasional pieces--speeches, interviews, articles--shows him very much as the public figure, the first in demand when an "occasion" needed a prominent person. Included are his speech before the French Academy on his reception into that body; his address welcoming Marshal Petain to membership in the French Academy; a witty and appealing commencement address to the young ladies of a private school; memorial addresses honoring Emile Verhaeren and Henri Bremond; an article on the "Future of Literature," and an incisive piece on the eponymous heroine of Racine's Phedre. Because Valery spoke on many current educational and social problems in France, Occasions will be of considerable interest to students of modern European history as well as to those concerned with French literature and drama. Originally published in 1970. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Grouped together in this book are several smaller volumes and plaquettes in which Valery had published selections of his shorter prose writings: aphorisms, moral reflections, poetic observations, flashes of wit or fancy, even jokes--a variety of remarks and impressions, many of them first recorded in his Notebooks. Originally published in 1970. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Includes some of Valery's finest strokes of imagination, Broken Stories; some of his wittiest observations, Mixtures, Poems in the Rough; and even two of his great poems, Parables and The Angel--all written in the form of prose. Originally published in 1970. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Poems ranging from "La Jeune Parque" and "Le Cimetiere marin" to occasional and light verse written as letters to friends, dedications in books, and inscriptions on ladies' fans demonstrate the wide scope of Valery's lyric preoccupation. The bilingual edition, with David Paul's English translations facing the French texts, includes the autobiographical "Recollection," quoted below, and excerpts on poetry, selected and translated from Valery's notebooks by James Lawler. Paul Valery turned to the discipline of poetry during the First World War, to escape from the "commotion of a world gone mad." "I fashioned myself a poetry," he wrote, "that had no other law than to establish for me a way of living with myself, for a part of my days." Originally published in 1971. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Valery's essays on Leonardo, Poe, Mallarme, and with these the "Teste Cycle," were that part of his work most central to his thought. The extensive selection included from his Notebooks is evidence of his enduring interest in these figures. The essays are, in fact, the only work with marginal glosses, Valery's notations showing how he went back, amending and amplifying his original ideas. Originally published in 1972. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

All of the major meditations on the theory and practice of poetry by one of the greatest poets of our time--and perhaps the one who has most scrupulously analyzed his art--are included in The Art of Poetry. Originally published in 1985. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

A selection of writings that portray the inner life of the artist. Included are several short autobiographical pieces in which Valery talks about his early childhood, his adolescence, his military experience, his travels, his poetry, and his acquaintances. The volume contains selections from the Valery-Gide and Valery-Fourment correspondence and two additional pieces, "The Avenues of the Mind," a magazine interview with Valery printed in 1927, and Pierre Feline's "Memories of Paul Valery." Originally published in 1975. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.