Nights Chewing Rose Petals: Selected Correspondence Between Valéry and Gide

Author: Jin Huimin, Editor-in-Chief
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Publishing Date: 2001-01-01
Features: The themes and content covered in this book are extremely rich: apart from confessions of friendship, there are debates on ethics and morals, insights into literature, commentary on current affairs, and delicate psychological analyses of oneself, and so on. The correspondence collection also recounts some anecdotes and from the literary scene at the time, portrays the spirits and personalities of numerous writers and literary figures, and further narrates the understanding of the two writers regarding the mainstream literary trends in France at the time. It vividly recreates the emotional journey of the two literary masters as they devoted themselves to their literary careers, experiencing passion, hope, hesitation, loss, confusion, and perseverance. This book is a collection of correspondences spanning half a century between the two literary masters, André Gide and Paul Valéry, who were renowned in the French literary scene at the beginning of the 20th century. The original correspondence collection included nearly five hundred letters, but due to space constraints, this book has selected approximately two hundred of them. It authentically records the fifty-year literary exchange between two individuals with vastly different personalities, revealing the exchanges of friendship between the two writers and their mutual exploration and pursuit of literary creation. As literary letters from writers, the themes and content covered in this book are extremely rich: apart from confessions of friendship, there are debates on ethics and morals, insights into literature, commentary on current affairs, and delicate psychological analyses of oneself, and so on. The correspondence collection also recounts some anecdotes and from the literary scene at the time, portrays the spirits and personalities of numerous writers and literary figures, and further narrates the understanding of the two writers regarding the mainstream literary trends in France at the time. It vividly recreates the emotional journey of the two literary masters as they devoted themselves to their literary careers, experiencing passion, hope, hesitation, loss, confusion, and perseverance.