Péguy and the Attempt to Preserve Our Humanity From the Deformations of Modernity

French writer Charles Péguy (1873–1914), painted by Jean-Pierre Laurens (1875–1932). Public domain via Wikimedia Commons

Commentary

In the introduction to his magisterial “Essays on European Literature” (1950), E.R. Curtius remarked on his good fortune in having been a contemporary and an interpreter of “men like Gide, Claudel, Péguy, Proust, Valéry, Hofmannsthal, Ortega, Joyce, Eliot.”