An Anthology

it was Monsieur Teste, the arch cynic, who knew well that the mind which consents to fame is a mind flawed. Valery's own ambition at twenty, as at forty, was to avoid this error, to safeguard his secrets, to choose anonymity.

• Author
• Paul Valéry, James R. Lawler, Jackson Mathews

• Format
• paperback

• Pages
• 380

• Publisher
• Princeton University Press

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 9780691018140

• Genres
• poetry, essays

• Release date
• 1977