July 1, 1946
The Future of Intellectual Germany: Jaspers vs. Undset
“Germany’s Past and Future in the Light of German Re-education”1 is the title under which the controlled German press recently published an article by Sigrid Undset. It is to be […]
June 28, 1946
Des Revues Francaises Apres la Liberation
Don’t you know … haven’t you read even enough history to know that in the past two thousand years, forty times at least, the Country of the Lilies, of which the Café […]
April 1, 1946
Valéry: La Poésie Engagée
It is difficult now to write of Valéry. It is not because so much of his work cannot be procured and one has to depend for his latest writings on […]
April 1, 1946
Paul Valéry
NOTE TO Editors – The A Team kept this piece as a PDF. Andre Gide PAUL VALERY R IEN ne pouvait honorer notre Gouvernement provisoire plus et mieux que ces […]
April 1, 1946
André Masson: A Comment
To understand the influences which helped to form Masson’s character and style, it is necessary to refer to the artistic turmoil which existed in Paris at the time that he […]
April 1, 1946
The Group Theatre¹
Clurman and his Group Theatre had to fail ultimately, because the task was, as he foresaw, an impossible one. What he and the Group aimed at was the unattainable: a […]
April 1, 1946
Dry Watershed
Kenneth Burke’s criticism, from Permanence and Change to the present volume,1 has been moving toward greater generality in form while remaining more or less static in content. He has been […]
April 1, 1946
The Outlook for Aesthetics: Post-War Stock-Taking II
Aesthetics flourished for many centuries, a subject without a name, and now it bids fair to become a name without a subject. From Plato till Baumgarten there was no name. […]
April 1, 1946
At Valéry’s Funeral¹
There had grown up around Paul Valéry a very special kind of respect. It was not veneration of recognized greatness, it was not sympathy for a kindred sensibility; it was […]
April 1, 1946
Melville the Poet
F. O. Matthiessen has undertaken to give in twenty-two pages a cross-section of the rather large body of the poetry of Herman Melville.1 If he had intended to give merely […]
January 1, 1946
The Impressionism of Marcel Proust
In the simplest sense, an object is that which exists independently of a subject. But how can objectivity in art be considered pure?—a thought which brings in question the puristic […]
January 1, 1946
Escape to Reality
Mr. Ransom’s remarks on my program for universal salvation, as outlined in the last section of the Speculation, were acute and just, and I ought to have known something everybody […]