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Winner of the 2010 National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography
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? How do you do the good or honorable thing, while flourishing and feeling happy?
This question obsessed Renaissance writers, none more than Michel Eyquem de Monatigne, perhaps the first truly modern individual. A nobleman, public official and wine-grower, he wrote free-roaming explorations of his thought and experience, unlike anything written before. He called them “essays,” meaning “attempts” or “tries.” Into them, he put whatever was in his head: his tastes in wine and food, his childhood memories, the way his dog’s ears twitched when it was dreaming, as well as the appalling events of the religious civil wars raging around him. The Essays was an instant bestseller and, over four hundred years later, Montaigne’s honesty and charm still draw people to him. Readers come in search of companionship, wisdom and entertainment—and in search of themselves.
This book, a spirited and singular biography, relates the story of his life by way of the questions he posed and the answers he explored. It traces his bizarre upbringing, youthful career and sexual adventures, his travels, and his friendships with the scholar and poet Étienne de La Boétie and with his adopted “daughter,” Marie de Gournay. And we also meet his readers—who for centuries have found in Montaigne an inexhaustible source of answers to the haunting question, “how to live?”
作者简介:
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 catalogues rare book collections for the National Trust.
原文摘录:
Let us cut loose from all theties that bind us to others; let us win from ourselves the power to live really alone and to live that way at our ease. (查看原文)
庄尼卡
2018-01-16 06:14:37
—— 引自第29页
蒙田的新嗜好一点也不简单。他总喜欢装出《随笔集》是无心之作的样子，但偶尔还是会露出马脚，承认写作是一件辛苦的工作：
追寻心灵游荡的脚步，穿透内心最深处的杂陈意念，找出那些搅扰心神的刺激之源并予以固定，是一件艰难无比的工作，而且比原先想象的辛苦许多。 (查看原文)
赫索格
2018-09-12 17:14:49
—— 引自章节：开始写作