Paul Valery

The Author: William Kluback is Professor Emeritus at the City University of New York. Besides Valéry, he has published books on Cioran, Fondane, Ionesco, Senghor, and his Jerusalem teacher Samuel Hugo Bergman. William Kluback received his doctorate from The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He often writes for the magazine Midstream on subjects related to art. Previous volumes on Valéry include Paul Valéry: Philosophical Reflections (Lang, 1987); Paul Valery: The Search for Intelligence (Lang, 1993); Paul Valéry: Illusions of Civilization (Lang, 1996); Paul Valéry: The Continuous Search for Reality (Lang, 1997) and Paul Valéry: The Realms of the Analecta (Lang, 1998).