num_pages: 223
description: Valery's dialogues are his most important works of imagination in prose. Many consider the prose masterpieces Eupalinos and Dance and the Soul as the fullest and most characteristic expression of his genius. The dialogue form, "the most supple of the forms of expression, " was natural to Valery. "I found I was talking to myself in two voices, and began to write accordingly, " he said. His imagination and his philosophical mind found in his major dialogues the common ground they were always seeking. In the present volume, all the formal imaginary dialogues are brought together for the first time.
language: English
title: Dialogues
titlecomplete: Dialogues
genres: Classics, France, Philosophy, Literature, French Literature, Poetry, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 94
publisher: Princeton University Press