The Idea of Perfection
A fresh look into the monumental work of Paul Val ry, one of the major French literary figures of the twentieth century.Heir to Mallarm and the symbolists, godfather to the modernists, Paul Val ry was…
Specifikacia The Idea of Perfection
A fresh look into the monumental work of Paul Val ry, one of the major French literary figures of the twentieth century.Heir to Mallarm and the symbolists, godfather to the modernists, Paul Val ry was a poet with thousands of readers and few followers, great resonance and little echo. Along with Rilke and Eliot, he stands as a bridge between the tradition of the nineteenth century and the novelty of the twentieth. His reputation as a poet rests on three slim volumes published in a span of only ten years. Yet these poems, it turns out, are inseparable from another, much vaster intellectual and artistic enterprise: the Notebooks.Behind the published works, behind the uneventful life of the almost forgotten and then exceedingly famous poet, there hides another story, a private life of the mind, that has its record in 28,000 pages of notes revealed in their