Masters and Friends

The Collected Works of Paul Valry, Volume 9

A collection of Valrys essays and speeches on a wide range of philosophers, novelists, and poets

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