Praise of Folly (Evergreens)
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Book Details
Author(s)Desiderius Erasmus, Roger Clarke,
PublisherAlma Classics
ISBN / ASIN1847493246
ISBN-139781847493248
Sales Rank4,377,874
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
Description
The goddess Folly gives a speech, praising herself and explaining how much humanity benefits from her services, from politicians to philosophers, aristocrats, schoolteachers, poets, lawyers, theologians, monarchs and the clergy. At the same time, her discourse provides a satire of Erasmus's world, poking fun at false pedantry and the aberrations of Christianity. Woven throughout her monologue, a thread of irony calls into question the goddess's own words, in which ambiguities, allusions and interpretations collide in a way that makes Praise of Folly enduringly fascinating.
