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,
“... theoretical rigour? That is his fate in the latest Yale French Studies tome. Led by the editor, Gérard Defaux, the authors flick mainstream Montaigne scholarship aside with impatient condescension. ‘The naivety and weakness of the biographical type of criticism’, we are told, is ‘naturally to be shunned’. ‘The obsession with the ... ”
