Grouped together in this book are several smaller volumes and plaquettes
in which Valéry had published selections of his shorter prose writings:
aphorisms, moral reflections, poetic observations, flashes of wit or
fancy, even jokes--a variety of remarks and impressions, many of them
first recorded in his Notebooks.
Originally published in 1970.
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