Эстетическая бесконечность

Paul Valéry (1871–1945) is one of the most versatile figures in the culture of the 20th century: a poet, essayist, thinker, playwright, but most importantly, a seeker of keys to French and world culture, a master of the most complex ciphers and decipherments, in which mathematics turned out to be the key to poetry and dance is the key to philosophy. The Russian reader got acquainted with the texts of this author thanks to the long-standing collection "Paul Valery on Art", prepared by V. Kozov. In this edition, for the first time, Valerie, the thinker and philosopher of European culture, which he perceived as a single whole, as a stronghold of the entire Western and world civilization, is so fully revealed. Compiler and translator M. Taimanova carefully selected the author's texts so that "carefully developed feelings, thoughts, impulses turn into food for the mind and soul." The book includes memoirs, dialogues, reflections on the method, literary, metaphysical and cultural-historical essays, aphorisms and fragments of the famous Notebooks. Most of the texts included in the book in Russian are published for the first time.