Paul Valéry - Wikipedia [21] In Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451, the book-burning fire chief Beatty quotes Valery: The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us
Paul Valéry | The Poetry Foundation French poet and critic Paul Valéry was born in the small western Mediterranean village of Sète, France in 1871 Critics have called Valéry the last French symbolist, the first post-symbolist, a masterful classical prosodist, and an advocate of logical positivism Clearly, Valéry was heir to the symbolist tradition of another French poet, Stéphane Mallarmé, whom he knew and venerated, who
Paul Valéry | French Poet, Critic Philosopher | Britannica Paul Valéry (born Oct 30, 1871, Sète, Fr —died July 20, 1945, Paris) was a French poet, essayist, and critic His greatest poem is considered La Jeune Parque (1917; “The Young Fate”), which was followed by Album de vers anciens 1890–1900 (1920) and Charmes ou poèmes (1922), containing “Le Cimetière marin” (“The Graveyard by the Sea”) He later wrote a large number of
Paul Valéry — Wikipédia Œuvres (2016) en trois tomes; édition, présentation et notes de Michel Jarrety La Rivista "Commerce" e Marguerite Caetani, IV, Correspondance française Paul Valéry, Léon-Paul Fargue, Valery Larbaud Édition présentée et annotée par Sophie Levie et Ève Rabaté, Roma, Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, 2017
Paul Valery - New World Encyclopedia Valery died in Paris, in 1945 He was buried in his native Sète's "cimetiere marin," named from the title of his best known poem Work Valéry is best known as a poet, but he published fewer than 100 poems, and none before 1917, when he published his long "La Jeune Parque," at 46 years of age
Biography and publications | Paul Valéry - Poetics | Collège de France Born October 30 1871, Sète Died July 20 1945 Education and professional career 1887-1888 : Bachelor's degree in literature 1888-1892 : Law studies (licencié) 1897-1900 : Editor at the Ministry of War 1900 : Private secretary to Mr Édouard Lebey, director of Agence Havas 1924-1932 : Co-publisher of Commerce magazine 1925 : Elected to the Académie Française, in Anatole France's chair
Valéry, Paul (1871–1954) - Encyclopedia. com The 1920s were years when Valery established himself as a writer who would never become facile even while accepting a great number of assignments He meticulously compiled his essays in a five-volume series, each entitled Variété (1924–1944)
Paul Valéry summary | Britannica Paul Valéry, (born Oct 30, 1871, Sète, France—died July 20, 1945, Paris), French poet, essayist, and critic