Masters and Friends: The Collected Works of Paul Valéry, Volume 9

By Paul Valéry

A collection of Val ry's essays and speeches on a wide range of philosophers, novelists, and poets

Masters and Friends is a collection of Paul Val ry'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 Val ry's private comments on these writers in his Notebooks.

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: 0691293333
• ISBN13: 9780691293332
• Release Date: September 2026
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 1.46 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.5" x 8.5"