Abstract

For more than 50 years, Paul Valéry woke up every day before the sunrise to attend to the writing of what we know nowadays as his “Notebooks”. From this strenuous exercise, some ten thousand pages were produced that Valéry never intended to publish such as, although he considered this part from far the most important of his work. The goal of this practice was rather to enhance the self-awareness of the writing, thinking and contemplating subject and the elaboration of a language capable of expressing the consciousness itself, sketching so far the transition from non-verbal experience to its conceptual structure.