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The Collected Works of Paul Valry, Volume 14

A collection of Valrys shorter prose writings

This book brings together smaller volumes and booklets in which Paul Valry published selections of his shorter prose writings: aphorisms, moral reflections, poetic observations, flashes of wit or fancy, even jokesa variety of remarks and impressions, many of them first recorded in his Notebooks.

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