Cahiers / Notebooks 1

The Editors: Brian Stimpson is Professor of Twentieth-Century French Literature at the University of Surrey Roehampton. Paul Gifford is Buchanan Professor of French at the University of St Andrews. Robert Pickering is Professor of French Literature at the Université Blaise Pascal, Clermont-Ferrand. Brian Stimpson, Paul Gifford and Robert Pickering have published a number of books about Paul Valéry.

Contents : Valéry's Notebooks , the nearest modern equivalent to the notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci - Valéry, one of the most outstanding French thinkers of the twentieth century - A wide range of investigation into all spheres of human activity - Self - Writing - Poetics - Language - Science - Mathematics - Art - Psychology - Dream - Philosophy - History - Politics.

«Editing the ‘Cahiers’ is a monumental undertaking, and Brian Stimpson, Paul Gifford, and Robert Pickering have acquitted themselves honorably. The first two volumes of the projected series give every indication of meticulous research and scholarship. The books are handsome; the typeface is delicate but readable; and the endnotes are what endnotes are supposed to be: enlightening addenda served up in pithy, eloquent prose.» (Arthur Krystal, Harper’s Magazine)