"He had become the dandy of the unpredictable."A quest for new sensations--and an avowed desire to shock--possessed the Decadent writers of fin-de-siecle Paris. Indeed, the years 1880-1900 saw an extr
The Cahiers/Notebooks of Paul Valéry are a unique form of writing. They reveal Valéry as one of the most radical and creative minds of the twentieth century, encompassing a wide range of investigation
