Viva la joia
Roy Porter, 22 December 1983
Montaigne: Essays in Reading
edited by Gérard Defaux.
Yale, 308 pp., £8.95, April 1983,0 300 02977 2 Show More
edited by Gérard Defaux.
Yale, 308 pp., £8.95, April 1983,
Montaigne and Melancholy: The Wisdom of the ‘Essays’
by M.A. Screech.
Duckworth, 194 pp., £19.50, August 1983,0 7156 1698 6 Show More
by M.A. Screech.
Duckworth, 194 pp., £19.50, August 1983,
“... all this pontificating? These contributors might not stay for an answer – perhaps just as well. Michael Screech, however, offers some clues, pointing out, in his characteristically moving, erudite, but self-effacing study, Montaigne’s great antipathy towards pedantry, blather and bleating. For hard-line deconstructionists Screech’s book will have the ... ”