Sarah Bakewell

How to Live

Or a Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

How to get along with people, how to deal with violence, how to adjust to losing someone you love--such questions arise in most people's lives. They are all versions of a bigger question: How do you live? This question obsessed Renaissance writers, none more than Michel Eyquem de Montaigne, considered by many to be the first truly modern individual. He wrote free-roaming explorations of his thoughts and experience, unlike anything written before. More than four hundred years later, Montaigne's honesty and charm still draw people to him. Readers come to him in search of companionship, wisdom, and entertainment --and in search of themselves. Just as they will to this spirited and singular biography.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Other Press (NY)
• Seitenzahl: 416
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. September 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 212mm x 144mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 410g
• ISBN-13: 9781590514832
• ISBN-10: 1590514831
• Artikelnr.: 33130405

Autorenporträt

Sarah Bakewell was a curator of early printed books at the Wellcome Library before becoming a full-time writer, publishing her highly acclaimed biographies The Smart and The English Dane. She lives in London, where she teaches creative writing at City University and catalogs rare book collections for the National Trust.

Rezensionen

With this splendidly conceived and exquisitely written double biography - of both Montaigne the man and Montaigne the book - Sarah Bakewell should persuade another generation to fall in love with Montaigne Sunday Times