Twenty-four essays, subjects include: Descartes, Voltaire, Stendhal, Gerard de Nerval, 'The Temptation of (St.) Flaubert', Rainer Maria Rilke, Marcel Proust and J.K. Huysmans; appendix of 'Comment from the Notebooks' netting Verlaine, Nietzsche, Bergson, Goethe, Voltaire ...; vol. 9 of the Collected Works, translated by Martin Turnell, introduction by Jospeh Frank.
