How to Live (häftad)
Format
Häftad (B-format paperback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
400
Utgivningsdatum
2011-01-06
Förlag
Vintage Publishing
Dimensioner
204 x 140 x 30 mm
Vikt
376 g
ISBN
9780099485155

How to Live

A Life of Montaigne in one question and twenty attempts at an answer

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Häftad,  Engelska, 2011-01-06
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How to get on well with people, how to deal with violence, how to adjust to losing someone you love? How to live? This question obsessed Renaissance nobleman Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (1533-92), who wrote free-roaming explorations of his thought and experience, unlike anything written before. Into these essays he put whatever was in his head: his tastes in wine and food, his childhood memories, the way his dog's ears twitched when it was dreaming, events in the appalling civil wars raging around him. The Essays was an instant bestseller, and over four hundred years later, readers still come to him in search of companionship, wisdom and entertainment - and in search of themselves. This first full biography of Montaigne in English for nearly fifty years relates the story of his life by way of the questions he posed and the answers he explored.

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  1. Läs Montaigne!
    Anita Börlin, 17 augusti 2016

    Boken rekommenderas för alla som har ett livslångt förhållande till Montaigne eller som vill lära känna honom bättre. Det bästa är förstås att läsa Montaigne själv men Bakewell fördjupar kunskapen.

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Sarah Bakewell had a wandering childhood, growing up on the "hippie trail" through Asia and in Australia. She studied philosophy at the University of Essex, and worked for many years as a curator of early printed books at the Wellcome Library, London, before becoming a full-time writer. Her books include How to Live: a life of Montaigne, which won the Duff Cooper Prize and the US National Book Critics Circle Prize, and At the Existentialist Café, a New York Times Ten Best Books of 2016. She was also among the winners of the 2018 Windham-Campbell Literature Prize. She still has a tendency to wander, but is mostly to be found either in London or in Italy with her wife and their family of dogs and chickens. www.sarahbakewell.com