Montaigne

Title: Montaigne
Author: Hugo Friedrich
F: 1703996
ISBN: 9780520072534
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 1991
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Edition: First Edition
Number of Pages: 468
Section: Literary Collections | Essays
Condition Note: Clean, unmarked copy with some edge wear. Good binding. Dust jacket included if issued with one. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.
Publisher Description: Friedrich considers the Montaigne of the Essays on of the first "moralists" in the French sense of the term, recording with anthropological fervor and in fresh, informal language the full spectrum of human thought and commerce as he saw it. Philippe Desan, who introduces this fine translation, commends Friedrich's holistic interpretation of Montaigne's unstructured creation, so often reduced by critics to its smallest fragments. Friedrich, says Desan, evokes "an epoch, distilled from accounts given by the best witness of the Renaissance."