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Cahiers / Notebooks 2: Editor in Chief: Brian Stimpson- Associate Editors: Paul Gifford and Robert Pickering- Translated by Rachel Killick, R
Contributor(s): Stimpson, Brian (Editor), Valéry, Paul (Author)
ISBN: 3631367635     ISBN-13: 9783631367636
Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der W
OUR PRICE:   $171.38  
Product Type: Hardcover
Published: June 2001
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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Literary Criticism | European - French
- Philosophy
Dewey: 848.912
LCCN: 2001038074
Physical Information: 596 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - French
 
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Publisher Description:
The Cahiers/Notebooks of Paul Val ry are a unique form of writing. They reveal Val ry as one of the most radical and creative minds of the twentieth century, encompassing a wide range of investigation into all spheres of human activity. His work explores the arts, the sciences, philosophy, history and politics, investigating linguistic, psychological and social issues, all linked to the central questions, relentlessly posed: 'what is the human mind and how does it work?', 'what is the potential of thought and what are its limits?'
But we encounter here too, Val ry the writer: exploratory, fragmentary texts undermine the boundaries between analysis and creativity, between theory and practice. Neither journal nor diary, eluding the traditional genres of writing, the Notebooks offer lyrical passages, writing of extreme beauty, prose poems of extraordinary descriptive power alongside theoretical considerations of poetics, ironic aphorisms and the most abstract kind of analysis. The concerns and the insights that occupied Val ry's inner voyages over more than 50 years remain as relevant as ever for the contemporary reader: for the Self that is his principal subject is at once singular and universal.