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Masters and Friends

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A collection of Valéry’s essays and speeches on a wide range of philosophers, novelists, and poetsMasters and Friends is a collection of Paul Valéry’s essays and speeches on writers who shaped his ...
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A collection of Valéry’s essays and speeches on a wide range of philosophers, novelists, and poets

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

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

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Price: $39.95
Pages: 448
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Imprint: Princeton University Press
Series: Bollingen Recollections
Publication Date: 01 September 2026
ISBN: 9780691293325
Format: Paperback
BISACs:

LITERARY COLLECTIONS / European / French, Literary studies: poetry and poets, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Speeches, Literary essays, Speeches

Paul Valéry (1871–1945) was a French poet, essayist, and critic and a major figure in twentieth-century literature. In addition to his poetry, his best-known works include the novel Monsieur Teste and his posthumously published Notebooks.