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Id©e Fixe : The Collected Works of Paul Val©ry, Volume 5 - Paul Valéry

Id©e Fixe

The Collected Works of Paul Val©ry, Volume 5

By: Paul Valéry, David Paul (Translator), Jackson Mathews (Preface by), Philip Wheelwright (Introduction by)

Hardcover | 8 September 2026

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An informal dialogue of ideas in which Val©ry paints a witty portrait of himself

Offhand, personal, and amusing, Paul Val©ry’s Id©e Fixe is an informal imaginative dialogue of ideas in which two men vacationing at the sea seek refuge from boredom by engaging in intellectual banter about human nature, the mind, and the haphazard relationship between humans and the world. Since the first-person speaker is unmistakably Val©ry, the dialogue is perhaps more than anything else a wry self-portrait of a spare, dapper, and nervous figure whose feverish mind seldom allows him to rest—or anyone else to talk.

The Collected Works of Paul Val©ry, the first collected edition of the writer in English, features new translations, the original French on facing pages for poetic works, and editorial notes.

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Published: 1st September 2026

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