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Masters and Friends: The Collected Works of Paul Val茅ry, Volume 9

    Translated by
  • Martin Turnell
    Introduction by
  • Joseph Frank

A collection of Val茅ry鈥檚 essays and speeches on a wide range of philosophers, novelists, and poets

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Price:
$39.95/拢35.00
ISBN:
Published:
Sep 8, 2026
Copyright:
1968
Pages:
448
Size:
5.5 x 8.5 in.

Masters and Friends is a collection of Paul Val茅ry鈥檚 essays and speeches on writers who shaped his mind, interests, and affections: Descartes, Voltaire, Stendhal, Goethe, Villon, Nietzsche, Pascal, Proust, Huysmans, Pierre Lou每s, Nerval, Rilke, Bergson, and others. The volume also includes an appendix of Val茅ry鈥檚 private comments on these writers in his Notebooks.

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.