What Do I Know?

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Essential Essays

By Michel De Montaigne

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What Do I Know? presents a selection of Michel de Montaigne's seminal essays, introducing readers to the origins of the modern essay form. Montaigne explores themes ranging from personal introspection to broad reflections on human nature, governance, memory, and emotion, all conveyed with a probing intelligence and unique perspective.
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Format: Hardback

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This book is ideal for readers interested in arts and culture, Renaissance philosophy, and personal reflection, as well as those who appreciate classic literature and insightful essays on human nature.

A selection of Michel de Montaigne's most profound, searching essays, in a new translation and stunning new edition.

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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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'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

'[Montaigne] was the first who had the courage to say as an author what he felt as a man' - William Hazlitt

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781782278818

Publisher: Pushkin Press

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 05 October 2023

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Pushkin Press

Contributors:

Translated by David Coward
Translated by David Coward
Introduction by Yiyun Li

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 129.0mm

Height: 198.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 192

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Arts & Culture Biography & Memoir Michel De Montaigne Non-Fiction Philosophy & Psychology Philosophy & Stoicism

About the Author

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 Perigueux 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 chateau 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.

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