Monsieur Teste: 6 (Collected Works of Paul Valery)

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But the book deserves to be read as a record of a restless and scrupulous mind, and as a sidelight on the poetry.

I had been prepared to speak to the receptionist in Portuguese but he detected my Anglo Saxon demeanour and went straight into English mode.Monsieur Teste reflects Valéry's preoccupation with the phenomenon of a mind detached from sensibility, yet he is also an ordinary fictional character. Au cas où livres commandés seraient particulièrement lourds ou imposants, vous serez informé que des frais de transports supplémentaires sont nécessaires. That sort of thing makes a big difference, because if you lose confidence in that situation it’s quite difficult to get back on track. The first part of the exam was as expected: a series of multiple choice questions based on written texts. By using LibraryThing you acknowledge that you have read and understand our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy.

Summary: "The famous opening line of Monsieur Teste -- "Stupidity is not my strong suit"--Is typical of Monsieur Teste, and of Valery as well.

For instance, it seems to me that judgments of the form " x is bullshit" necessarily presuppose that the judging party has an adequate understanding of the x's semantic content (or alleged lack thereof).

The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. Kendimi çok az gözden kaçırdım; kendimden nefret ettim, kendime hayran oldum sonra, birlikte yaşlandık. In addition to his fiction (poetry, drama and dialogues), he also wrote many essays and aphorisms on art, history, letters, music, and current events.Superficially, it purports to comprise a study of "a mind detached from sensibility" (whatever the hell that means); and while the book made me feel as if I was on the cusp of something profound, the critical moment of enlightenment never materialized. He fascinates his few friends and his wife by the degree to which he seems to stand aside from them. I wasn’t expecting there to be many fellow students, but I was a bit startled to find I was the only one! I get down with Blanchot, Lispector, and all manner of other abstract unreal novelists, so why am I coming up blank here? This expanded version in the Princeton Bollingen series is a revised translation by the same translator, Jackson Mathews, who rendered it in English 20 years earlier and later rightly received the award for translation.

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