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Article: Helene Julien, Le Roman de Karin et Paul.(Figures de Valery)(Book Review)
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- The Romanic Review
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- November 1, 2004
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Helene Julien, Le Roman de Karin et Paul. Paris: L'Harmattan, 1999. Anne Mairesse, Figures de Valery. Paris: L'Harmattan, 2000.
Both these books illuminate the ways in which several of Paul Valery's works engage in half-hidden dialogues with his contemporaries. Whereas Anne Mairesse considers the full trajectory of Valery's work, beginning with his early correspondence and continuing through his later entries in the Cahiers, Helene Julien focusses on a key period in his career: 1920 to 1928 when he wrote important reflections on, and works inspired by, the myths of Orpheus and Narcissus. The former book considers several figures with whom the poet ...