Montaigne

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."Friedrich, Hugo is the author of 'Montaigne' with ISBN 9780520072534 and ISBN 0520072537.