Leonardo, Poe, Mallarmé: The Collected Works of Paul Valéry, Volume 8

By Paul Valéry

A collection of Val ry's essays on three artists who were of central importance to him

Paul Val ry had an enduring fascination with Leonardo, Poe, and Mallarm and his essays on these fellow artists are among his most important writings. This volume presents those essays along with extensive selections on these figures from Val ry's Notebooks. Val ry's Leonardo and Poe were almost pure invention. It was not so much their works as their minds that interested him--"the living and thinking systems that produced those works." In the essays on Mallarm , Val ry was writing about a man he knew and loved, and a poet he greatly admired, but whose difference from himself he fully recognized.

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

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 069129299X
• ISBN13: 9780691292991
• Release Date: September 2026
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 480 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.5" x 8.5"