Tag Archives: Paul Valery

Dreyfus: forging the vital lie

Necessity now took over entirely. New military blunders and new leaks had to occur. Six months later, just as a new war minister was preparing to have the Dreyfusard leadership put on trial for conspiracy against the security of the … Continue reading

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take five with the marquise

Disrupted momentum.  A plot, a narrative incident, a moment of the dramatic lending momentum to the whole: Precisely those elements mostly absent in our daily lives, replete as they are with what Walter Benjamin called “messy antics,” confused, shambling and … Continue reading

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five O’clock paris … one hour and one spot

The “experimental novel” of Claude Mauriac. The Marquise Went Out at Five. Paul Valery, asked why he never embarked on a novel said, “I could not bear to write down the words, ‘The Marquise Went Out At Five.’” A poet, … Continue reading

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MANET & MORISOT: AMBIGUITY BETWEEN PLEASURE AND DESIRE

“For Realist painters at mid-century, the experience of the senses was not something to be allegorized. It was something to be given to the viewer full-on. Such a statement became a philosophical position. It was part of the materialist view of the world … Continue reading

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MOLLUSKS & MIGHTY APHRODITE

To the deceptively simple lessons of nature, humankind has turned repeatedly for renewal, self discovery, and a glimpse of their place in the great nature of things. Few creations of the natural world have served so well and widely in … Continue reading

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ABSURDLY DEAD IN THE PRESENT TENSE

In France, it is even possible to remain a writer without writing, as Rimbaud did, living in the consciousness of his contemporaries after his premature creative death, or Valery during his seventeen year silence. So passionately does France hold literature … Continue reading

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