by François de La Rochefoucauld · Editorial Planeta Barcelona · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788432039171
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«Máximas» is the collection of moral sayings and reflections by François de La Rochefoucauld, published by Editorial Planeta in paperback (127 pages, in Spanish).
The author dissects human psychology through brief aphorisms: self-love, vanity, courtesy and passions are portrayed with irony and lucidity. The work, born in the French courtly environment of the 17th century, invites readers to recognise the hidden motives of behaviour and the contradictions of social life.
Work originally published as «Réflexions ou Sentences et Maximes morales» (1665). This edition belongs to the Clásicos universales Planeta collection and includes introduction, translation and notes by Carlos Pujol.
For those who enjoy moral philosophy, 17th-century French literature and classical aphorisms.
François de La Rochefoucauld, 2nd Duke of La Rochefoucauld, Prince de Marcillac was an accomplished French moralist of the era of French Classical literature and author of Maximes and Memoirs, the only two works of his dense literary œuvre published. His Maximes portrays the callous nature of human conduct, with a cynical attitude towards putative virtue and avowals of affection, friendship, love, and loyalty. Leonard Tancock regards Maximes as "one of the most deeply felt, most intensely lived texts in French literature", with his "experience, his likes and dislikes, sufferings and petty spites ... crystallized into absolute truths".
