Talk:Paul Valéry

message: Valery:
* Was a quiet civil servant whose private life was spotless.
* Had no political enthusiasms and maintained a life of Olympian calm.
* Held views about human nature, the sexes, art, and culture that were conservative, verging on the politically incorrect, and that he expressed in splendid aphorisms.
* Employed very orthodox literary techniques. No modernist he.
* Is known as a poet but wrote fewer than 100 poems. Meanwhile, he kept a vast intellectual diary, much of it still unpublished, revealing his real passion to have been not literature, but mathematics and theoretical physics.
This man is a sleeping giant of world civilization. Why is he so little appreciated nowadays?
Someone nicely upgraded the Biography section. And thus I learned today that he was related by marriage to Berthe Morisot. To my knowledge, there is no biography of Valery in any language.
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I have what can perhaps be an ignorant quibble with the line that says "fiction (poetry, drama and dialogues)"... is poetry considered fiction? If not, how can that line be salvaged/reapaired?
Hello, I am looking for a an English/French edition of Valery. Does anyone know if one exists?
::There are some facing French pages in the English translation of his works found in Aesthetics, Paul Valéry, Bollingen Series XLV, Pantheon Books, 1964, Library of Congress catalogue card no. 56-9337 (Volume 13 of the Collected Works of Paul Valéry, published by the Bollingen Foundation).Lestrade 17:12, 7 September 2007 (UTC)
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message: I have what can perhaps be an ignorant quibble with the line that says "fiction (poetry, drama and dialogues)"... is poetry considered fiction? If not, how can that line be salvaged/reapaired?
Hello, I am looking for a an English/French edition of Valery. Does anyone know if one exists?
::There are some facing French pages in the English translation of his works found in Aesthetics, Paul Valéry, Bollingen Series XLV, Pantheon Books, 1964, Library of Congress catalogue card no. 56-9337 (Volume 13 of the Collected Works of Paul Valéry, published by the Bollingen Foundation).Lestrade 17:12, 7 September 2007 (UTC)
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message: After saying "His far more ample prose writings, peppered with many aphorisms and bons mots, reveal a conservative and skeptical outlook on human nature, verging on the cynical," the article continues, "However, he never said or wrote anything giving aid or comfort to any form of totalitarianism popular during his lifetime."
Is it to be expected that a person with a "conservative and skeptical outlook on human nature" is likely to support totalitarianism?  That second sentence seems pointless.  I'm not deleting it because I don't know anything about the man, and perhaps there is some reason for it that I'm not getting, but it is distinctly odd.74.103.120.202 (talk) 19:49, 8 March 2011 (UTC)
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message: I don't know about the opinion of most others, but in claiming Valéry is a polymath I would refer simply and straightforwardly to his "accomplishments" or his "expertise" rather than interests. "Interests" is almost a jest, and makes it sound as though he is a dilettante.  It is acceptable for academics today to refer to their competencies or specializations as interests, up to a point, but that is only in speaking casually or at an early phase of one's career.Cdg1072 (talk) 04:31, 5 August 2012 (UTC)
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message: From a Borges lecture: "What I’ve been told about Valery is that during his final years he was not a wealthy man, and he devoted his time to creating false manuscripts of his own poems. That is, he wrote a poem, used any old adjective, then crossed it out and put in the real one. The adjective that he first wrote, he had invented in order to correct it. Or, he would sell manuscripts in which he changed a few words and then didn’t correct them so they would look like drafts." Ghirla-трёп- 22:23, 9 January 2020 (UTC)
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