Autour de Montaigne
by Emile Faguet, preface by Antoine Compagnon
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(May 2022)
ISBN: 9782406131960
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The essays of Emile Faguet, then a very influential critic, illustrate the volatility of the reception of Michel de Montaigne in the early twentieth century. He defends the idea of a “polychrome” Montaigne, whose thought is always in motion. These studies also shed light on the history of literary criticism.
- By (author) Emile Faguet
- Preface by Antoine Compagnon
Review - French La lecture des Essais a connu un tournant au debut du XXe siecle. Les textes d'Emile Faguet (1847-1916), alors l'un des critiques les plus influents, illustrent bien l'instabilite de la reception de Michel de Montaigne a cette epoque. Dans une monographie de 1894, il entend refuter le scepticisme de l'auteur des Essais propage par Pascal et Victor Cousin. Lors de la publication du Montaigne de Fortunat Strowski en 1906, il conteste la these de l'evolution de la pensee de Montaigne que l'histoire litteraire est en train d'imposer. Emile Faguet defend l'idee d'un Montaigne polychrome , dont la pensee, toujours en mouvement, pouvait se contredire parce que la vie est contradictoire. Ces etudes eclairent egalement l'histoire de la critique litteraire.
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