Upon the publication of an English-language version of Paul Valéry’s Cahiers/Notebooks. The name Paul Valéry carries its own music. For those who know something of what lies behind it, the music ...

July is not only the month of the Fall of the Bastille but of the death of Paul Valéry (30 October 1871-20 July 1945) as well. He was not only a poet and essayist of rare talent, but also a rigorous ...

The Idea of Perfection: The Prose and Poetry of Paul Valéry, translated by Nathaniel Rudavsky-Brody (image courtesy Farrar, Straus and Giroux) In his 1919 essay “Tradition and the Individual Talent,” ...

French poet Paul Valery’s(link is external) 1894 essay “Introduction to the Method of Leonardo da Vinci(link is external)” outlines an approach to science and art closely resembling esperienza ...

The Bulletin des Études Valéryennes publishes three times a year since 1974 all information concerning Valéryian research in France and abroad (publications, theses, colloquia, etc.), and serves as a ...

Paul Valéry, trans. from the French by Charlotte Mandell. New York Review Books, $15.95 trade paper (104p) ISBN 978-1-68137-892-3 Mandell’s fresh translation of Valéry’s stimulating posthumous ...

The following essay is adapted from Clive James’ Cultural Amnesia, a re-examination of intellectuals, artists, and thinkers who helped shape the 20 th century. Slate is publishing an exclusive ...

IN STATURE and bearing my father, Paul Valéry, resembled the French foot soldier: he was short and well-proportioned, spare and lively; nothing mannered or affected. He did not like tall men — not ...