A selection of writings that portray the inner life of the artist. Included are several short autobiographical pieces in which Val?ry talks about his early childhood, his adolescence, his military experience, his travels, his poetry, and his acquaintances. The volume contains selections from the Val?ry-Gide and Val?ry-Fourment correspondence and two additional pieces, "The Avenues of the Mind," a magazine interview with Val?ry printed in 1927,...