Word: courtier
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Maxims of La Rochefoucauld, translated by Louis Kronenberger. The power of negative thinking, as demonstrated by the sharp-tongued 17th century courtier, soldier and cynic...
...Maxims of La Rochefoucauld, translated by Louis Kronenberger. The power of negative thinking, as demonstrated by the sharp-tongued 17th century courtier, soldier and cynic...
...Maxims of La Rochefoucauld, translated by Louis Kronenberger. The 17th century wit, courtier, soldier and cynic pressed the tart juices of aphorism out of the sweet and sour grapes of his varied social experience...
...Maxims of La Rochefoucauld, translated by Louis Kronenberger. The 17th century wit, courtier, soldier and cynic pressed the tart juices of aphorism out of the sweet and sour grapes of his varied social experience...
...human trait, as Author-Critic Louis Kronenberger points out in his new translation of the Maxims (Random House; $3.50), La Rochefoucauld narrowed his vision. Indeed, some of the maxims are strangely naive and platitudinous, suggesting once again that cynicism is sentimentality in reverse-and that, perhaps, the sheltered courtier could have learned from the crude common sense of the peasant. Yet at his best, as Kronenberger puts it, "La Rochefoucauld, in his way, has peered quite as sharply as modern specialists in theirs, into a dark realm of tangled and unsightly motives. Again and again, [he] anticipated the Freudians." Some...