| Cahiers / Notebooks 5: Translated and Edited by Brian Stimpson, Paul Gifford, Robert Pickering and Norma Rinsler Contributor(s): Stimpson, Brian (Editor), Valéry, Paul (Author) |
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ISBN: 363136766X ISBN-13: 9783631367667 Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der W OUR PRICE: $173.85 Product Type: Hardcover Published: April 2010 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Philosophy - Literary Criticism | European - French |
| Dewey: 848 |
| Physical Information: 602 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - French |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| 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. |