The Essays: A Selection (Penguin Classics): Montaigne.

At first I had reservations about buying this because Penguin's site gives a table of contents for this book that is actually from Montaigne's SELECTED Essays. I didn't want to pay this much for a selection, but I took a chance, and was relieved to find that this IS the COMPLETE Essays. The caveat is that although this is a beautiful book, it.

This review refers to Montaigne: Selected essay edited by Tilley and Boase, 3rd ed. 1954, Manchester University Press This edition brings the original text in old French of a selection of 15 essays (7 of book I, 4 of book II, 4 of book III).

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Montaigne cultivates his liberty by not adhering exclusively to any one idea, while at the same time exploring them all. In exercising his judgment on various topics, he trains himself to go off on fresh tracks, starting from something he read or experienced. For Montaigne this also means calling into question the convictions of his time.

This book in the Penguin 60 series gives a small and enticing introduction to the essays by the father of the form. It is not light reading, given the author's use of his extensive knowledge of classical authors, his dense argumentation and (I'm sounding very much like a child of the twenty-first century) the length of his sentences and paragraphs.

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An NYRB Classics Original Shakespeare, Nietzsche wrote, was Montaigne’s best reader—a typically brilliant Nietzschean insight, capturing the intimate relationship between Montaigne’s ever-changing record of the self and Shakespeare’s kaleidoscopic register of human character.

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