by François La Rochefoucauld, Louis Lacour · Antigonos Verlag · tapa blanda · ISBN 9783563045312
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«Réflexions, ou, Sentences et maximes morales de La Rochefoucauld» is the work of François de La Rochefoucauld, published by Antigonos Verlag in paperback.
The work brings together brief, sharp maxims on human nature, selfishness and morality. His reflections, often ironic and disillusioned, portray selfishness as the driving force of actions and have influenced French literature and moralist thought.
This edition is a reprint of the original 1868 edition, edited by Louis Lacour. Antigonos Verlag specialises in reprints of historical works. Text in French.
Intended for readers interested in French classics and seventeenth-century moralist thought.
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".
