Master and Friends: The Collected Works of Paul Valery (Bollingen Series)
by Paul Valery
Master and Friends: The C...
by
Paul Valery
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| published
| 1968
by Princeton Univ Pr
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| binding
| Hardcover |
| isbn
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0691098433
(isbn13: 9780691098432)
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| pages
| 490 |
| date added
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04-09-07
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Valéry's heroes are delved into here, forming a portrait of Valéry more than any other thinker. My favorites deal with Descartes, and The Return From Holland where he meditates on Degas theories while musing on the compression of time and space of the train, watching his own reflection in the window as the train speeds through the dark night: "I am leaving Holland... I suddenly have the feeling that Time is beginning; that Time has started to move; that the moving train has become a sym...more
Valéry's heroes are delved into here, forming a portrait of Valéry more than any other thinker. My favorites deal with Descartes, and The Return From Holland where he meditates on Degas theories while musing on the compression of time and space of the train, watching his own reflection in the window as the train speeds through the dark night: "I am leaving Holland... I suddenly have the feeling that Time is beginning; that Time has started to move; that the moving train has become a symbol of Time with all its relentlessness and its powers. It devours all visible things, shakes up all mental things, flings its massive body into a savage attack on the very face of the earth, sends bushes, houses, provinces scurrying to the devil; mows down trees, shoots through arches, dispatches telegraph poles, rudely flattening in its wake all the lines it crosses, canals, furrows, roads. It turns bridges into thunder, cows into projectiles, the pebbly surface of the roadbed into a curtain of machine-gun fire. Even one's ideas, continually overtaken, and dragged along as though stretched thin by the rush of images, undergo a change like a sound whose source flies past and away."...less
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