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En 1939, la obra de Paul Valéry (Sète, 30 de octubre de 1871-París, 20 de julio de 1945) fue saludada por María Zambrano como «la identificación más total hasta ahora de pensamiento y poesía». A lo largo de su vida, el autor de La velada con Monsieur Teste y El cementerio marino barajó la posibilidad de componer «un libro sin modelo», capaz de contener tratados breves, aforismos, sentencias, apotegmas e incluso fábulas condensadas. No es otro el plan al que parece ceñirse este texto inaudito, cuyo título despertó las suspicacias de la censura alemana que controlaba la vida cultural parisina en el momento de su aparición (1942). En sus páginas –traducidas por vez primera en España, coincidiendo con el ciento cincuenta aniversario del nacimiento de Valéry–, hallamos preciosas divisas para resistentes, como esta: «Una dificultad es una luz. Una dificultad insalvable es un sol».
264 pages, Paperback
Published November 29, 2021
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Paul Valéry
623 books482 followersAmbroise-Paul-Toussaint-Jules Valéry (October 30, 1871 - July 20, 1945 ) was a French poet, essayist, and philosopher.
His interests were sufficiently broad that he can be classified as a polymath. In addition to his fiction (poetry, drama and dialogues), he also wrote many essays and aphorisms on art, history, letters, music, and current events.
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.
His interests were sufficiently broad that he can be classified as a polymath. In addition to his fiction (poetry, drama and dialogues), he also wrote many essays and aphorisms on art, history, letters, music, and current events.
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.
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November 27, 2023
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"Nao és tu o futuro de todas as lembranças que estão em ti? O futuro de um passado?"
"Nao és tu o futuro de todas as lembranças que estão em ti? O futuro de um passado?"
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