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Valéry is best known as a poet, and is sometimes considered to be the last of the French Symbolists. But he published fewer than a hundred poems, and none that drew much attention. On the night of 4 October 1892, during a heavy storm, Paul Valéry entered an existential crisis, which made a big impact on his writing career. Around 1898, his writing activity even came to a near-standstill, due partly to the death of his mentor Stéphane Mallarmé and for nearly twenty years from that time on, Valery did not publish a single word until 1917, when he finally broke this 'Great Silence' with the publication of La Jeune Parque at forty-six years of age. This obscure but superbly musical masterpiece, of 512 alexandrine lines in rhyming pairs, had taken him four years to complete, and immediately secured his fame. It is esteemed by many in France as the greatest French poem of the 20th century.]]> male Sète 1945/07/20 241713 0811202135 9780811202138 2 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173045368m/241713.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173045368s/241713.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/241713.Selected_Writings_of_Paul_Valery 4.38 50 141425 4.27 267 20 1964 241714 2070279138 9782070279135 3 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173045368m/241714.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173045368s/241714.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/241714.Monsieur_Teste 4.19 26 141425 4.27 267 20 1919 597365 0608028851 9780608028859 2 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/597365.The_Art_of_Poetry 4.35 20 141425 4.27 267 20 1985 241716 0691018782 9780691018782 0 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173045369m/241716.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173045369s/241716.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/241716.Dialogues 4.21 14 141425 4.27 267 20 1956 241715 0691018146 9780691018140 0 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173045369m/241715.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173045369s/241715.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/241715.Paul_Valery_An_Anthology 3.75 12 141425 4.27 267 20 1977 1323360 1852243872 9781852243876 2 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1182756324m/1323360.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1182756324s/1323360.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1323360.LA_Jeune_Parque 4.33 9 141425 4.27 267 20 166237 4.33 9 2 1953 241724 0807064300 9780807064306 0 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173045370m/241724.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173045370s/241724.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/241724.Sea_Shells_by_Paul_Valery 3.80 10 --Gregory McNamee]]> 141425 4.27 267 20 1998 597348 0691099359 9780691099354 0 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/597348.Leonardo_Poe_Mallarme_ 4.14 7 141425 4.27 267 20 1972 597349 0691098433 9780691098432 1 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/597349.Master_and_Friends_The_Collected_Works_of_Paul_Valery 4.50 6 141425 4.27 267 20 1968 1609457 3631348819 9783631348819 1 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1609457.Cahiers_Notebooks 5.00 5 141425 4.27 267 20 2000