Paul Valéry: per un'estetica della composizione

Abstract

Valery’s conceptions of mind, literature and even philosophy often stress the importance of an effort against heterogeneity that should be led in the name of what the author himself calls purete. On the other hand, the theories that Valery develops about composition - which is intended both as an aesthetic and a theoretical concept - show the importance of complexity in his representation of the esprit and allows to compare Valery’s descriptions of the self with the way he represents creative process and even draws the structure of his own works.