The poem, set in the cemetery at Sète (where Valéry himself is now buried), is a meditation on death. At first the narrator observes the calm sea under the bl

On the basis of the French text and a translation that is at once accurate and poetical, this book provides an introduction to the poem, Le Cimetière marin, an

In the decades surrounding World War I, religious belief receded in the face of radical new ideas such as Marxism, modern science, Nietzschean philosophy, and c