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Valéry's Cahiers are one of the most
remarkable and original works in twentieth-century thought, a quite unique form
of writing, unparalleled in scope and form, vertiginous in their sheer volume.
Day in day out, in the silence of dawn, over more than 50 years, Valéry
relentlessly pursued his questioning of the self in an attempt to determine the
creative and cognitive mechanisms of the mind. By the time of his death in
1945, there were 261 notebooks, amounting to some 28,000 pages.