Bitten by a Snake
Michael Wood: Waiting for Valéry, 21 May 2020
The Idea of Perfection: The Poetry and Prose of Paul Valéry
translated by Nathaniel Rudavsky-Brody.
Farrar, Straus, 352 pp., £32, April,978 0 374 29848 7 Show More
translated by Nathaniel Rudavsky-Brody.
Farrar, Straus, 352 pp., £32, April,
“... the notebooks for relevant, specified periods: 1894-1914, 1915-21 and 1922-45. In his introduction Nathaniel Rudavsky-Brody associates Valéry with Rilke and Eliot, and quotes the latter’s proclamation that Valéry ‘will remain for posterity the representative poet, the symbol of the poet, of the first half of the 20th century’. It’s not clear ... ”
