Benjamin Kunkel writes about the French modernist poet Paul Valéry, and in particular about his early novella, “Monsieur Teste,” recently published in a new translation by Charlotte Mandell.

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Paul Valery was a French Impressionist & Modern artist who was born in 1871. Numerous key galleries and museums such as MO.CO. Panacée have featured Paul Valery's work in the past. Paul Valery's work ...

Delving into the unusual worlds of Reid Byers’s “Imaginary Books,” Paul Valéry’s “Monsieur Teste” and “The Anthologist’s Folly,” edited by Johnny Mains.

For a long time nothing about Valéry seemed to me more obvious than his predilection and his genius for the verse poem. To my mind, the intensity, the purity, the uniqueness ofLa Jeune Parque, Le ...

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Paul Valéry never had a car, nor a secretary, nor room to work in. He would not permit himself taxis; he enjoyed walking anyway and, until the last, went at a lively gait.

The Idea of Perfection: The Prose and Poetry of Paul Valéry, translated by Nathaniel Rudavsky-Brody (image courtesy Farrar, Straus and Giroux). In his 1919 essay “Tradition and the Individual ...

By Paul Valéry, translated by Charlotte Mandell. NYRB Classics. 104 pages. We may earn a commission when you buy products through the links on our site.

July is not only the month of the Fall of the Bastille but of the death of Paul Valéry (30 October 1871-20 July 1945) as well. He was not only a poet and essayist of rare talent, but also a ...