The Complete Essays (EN) - Michel de Montaigne
The Complete Essays (EN) - Michel de Montaigne In 1572, Montaigne – nobleman, humanist, and thoroughly Renaissance man – retired to the seclusion of his estate in the Dordogne and started to write.…
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The Complete Essays (EN) - Michel de Montaigne
In 1572, Montaigne – nobleman, humanist, and thoroughly Renaissance man – retired to the seclusion of his estate in the Dordogne and started to write. He made the study of himself the starting point for investigations into how to live, and wrote with a startlingly modern candour about love, grief, friendship, sex and death. From his pen poured a stream of ‘essays’ – attempts to capture the observations that came to him on an idiosyncratic range of subjects, from ancient customs, cannibals and books to thumbs, war-horses and the wearing of clothes.
The Essays feel less like a work of literature and more like an ongoing conversation with a very well-informed friend. His voice, by turns lively, curious, digressive, ironic and moving, is utterly captivating.
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