What Do I Know?

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Essential Essays

Häftad, Engelska, 2025

Av Michel de Montaigne, Michel de Montaigne, Michel De Montaigne

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'Read Montaigne in order to live' - Gustave Flaubert

'I defy any reader of Montaigne not to put down the book at some point and say with incredulity: "How did he know all that about me?"' - The Times

A selection of Michel de Montaigne's most profound, searching essays, in a new translation and stunning edition featuring an introduction by Yiyun Li

'I myself am the subject of my book'. So wrote Montaigne in the introductory note to his Essays, the book that marked the birth of the modern essay form. In works of probing intelligence and idiosyncratic observation, Montaigne moved from intimate personal reflection to roving theories of the conduct of kings and cannibals, the effects of sorrow and fear, and the fallibility of human memory and judgement.

This new selection of Montaigne's most ingenious essays appears in a lucid new translation by the prize-winning David Coward. What Do I Know? offers the modern reader profound insight into a great Renaissance mind.

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Utgivningsdatum2025-10-23
Mått129 x 198 x 15 mm
Vikt367 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SeriePushkin Press Deluxe Classic
Antal sidor192
FörlagPushkin Press
ISBN9781782278832
ÖversättareCoward, David, Coward, David (Translator)

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Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) was born on his family estate in Aquitaine, not far from Bordeaux. Raised speaking Greek and Latin, he studied law before embarking on a career of public service, first as a counselor of court in Périgueux and Bordeaux, then as a courtier to Charles IX. Following the death of his father, Montaigne retired from public life to the Tower of his château to read and write. He published the first two volumes of his landmark Essays in 1580, with a third following in 1588; the complete Essays appeared posthumously in 1595.

TABLE OF CONTENTSPART ONEMONTAIGNE ON MONTAIGNE1 On Sorrow2 On how our Actions are to be judged by the Intention3 On Idling4 On Liars5 That we should not be considered happy until we are deadPART TWOON THE PURSUIT OF REASON6 On Fear7 To tell true from false, it is folly to rely on our own capacities8 How we can cry and laugh at the same thing9 On Solitude10 On the Uncertainty of our Judgement11 On DrunkennessPART THREEON GOVERNANCE AND GOVERNORS12 On Cannibals13 On the Inequality that exists between us14 On Sleep15 On our lease of life16 On Carriages