Intertexts, March 22nd, 2002
Montaigne's essay "Of Friendship" represents a particularly interesting textual space in which the author's quests for self-knowledge and knowledge of the Other intersect, where the preliminary project of self-exploration--"I am myself the matter of my book" ("To the Reader" 2)--is supplemented by an exploration of the Other, the "perfect friend," Etienne de La Boetie. The double objective of the essay makes the author's search for self-understanding inseparable from the question "Who is La Boetie?," or rather "Who was La Boetie?" or even more precisely: "Who was La Boetie for Montaigne?" Form...
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