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From Zero to Zero

Blanc-Roos, René | September 4, 1948 issue

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The article presents information on the book "Monsieur Teste," by Paul Valéry. It is the journal kept by a proud man who, until just before the very end, denies the existence of anything but the cold, reasoning intellect, which he has explored to its limits. Poet T.S. Eliot considers Valery as representative of a Europe which is now finished, the representative poet of the first half of the twentieth century. The Self could never manage to function if it did not believe it was all.

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MONSIEUR Teste (Book); VALERY, Paul, 1871-1945; INTELLECT; POETS; ELIOT, T. S. (Thomas Stearns), 1888-1965; EUROPE
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