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Plays: The Collected Works of Paul Val茅ry, Volume 3

    Translated by
  • David Paul
  • Robert Fitzgerald
    Introduction by
  • Francis Fergusson
    Foreword by
  • Igor Stravinsky

Val茅ry鈥檚 complete writings for the theater

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Price:
$35.00/拢30.00
ISBN:
Published:
Sep 1, 2026
Copyright:
1960
Pages:
408
Size:
5.5 x 8.5 in.

This volume gathers all of Paul Val茅ry鈥檚 writings for the theater. It includes My Faust, Val茅ry鈥檚 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 Arthur Honegger; and The Narcissus Cantata, with music by Germaine Tailleferre.

The Collected Works of Paul Val茅ry, the first collected edition of the writer in English, features new translations, the original French on facing pages for poetic works, and editorial notes.