Charles Péguy: A Study In Integrity
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Edition: First Edition, second impression
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Good , price clipped
Markings: No markings
Condition remarks: Light chipping on jacket edges and folds - otherwise still structural. Shelf wear on binding. Pages still bright and clean.
A richly detailed biographical and critical study, this work chronicles the life and thought of Charles Péguy, the passionate French poet, essayist, and socialist-turned-Catholic mystic whose short life ended on the battlefields of World War I. Marjorie Villiers presents Péguy as a figure of fierce moral conviction, tracing his intellectual and spiritual evolution from his roots in working-class Orléans through his fervent engagement with the Dreyfus Affair, his founding of the influential journal Cahiers de la Quinzaine, and his ultimate return to a deeply personal Christian faith. Written with scholarly authority yet an accessible, humanizing warmth, the biography illustrates how Péguy's uncompromising integrity placed him perpetually at odds with the political and religious establishments of his era, making him a singular and often lonely voice in French intellectual life. Villiers argues that it is precisely this refusal to sacrifice principle for convenience that defines Péguy's enduring legacy, positioning him as one of the most morally serious writers of the early twentieth century.
Author: Marjorie Villiers
Format: Hardback
Published: 1965, Collins
Genre: Biography
Edition: First Edition, second impression
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Good , price clipped
Markings: No markings
Condition remarks: Light chipping on jacket edges and folds - otherwise still structural. Shelf wear on binding. Pages still bright and clean.
A richly detailed biographical and critical study, this work chronicles the life and thought of Charles Péguy, the passionate French poet, essayist, and socialist-turned-Catholic mystic whose short life ended on the battlefields of World War I. Marjorie Villiers presents Péguy as a figure of fierce moral conviction, tracing his intellectual and spiritual evolution from his roots in working-class Orléans through his fervent engagement with the Dreyfus Affair, his founding of the influential journal Cahiers de la Quinzaine, and his ultimate return to a deeply personal Christian faith. Written with scholarly authority yet an accessible, humanizing warmth, the biography illustrates how Péguy's uncompromising integrity placed him perpetually at odds with the political and religious establishments of his era, making him a singular and often lonely voice in French intellectual life. Villiers argues that it is precisely this refusal to sacrifice principle for convenience that defines Péguy's enduring legacy, positioning him as one of the most morally serious writers of the early twentieth century.