How to Live : Or a Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer

English

ISBN: 1590514831

EAN: 9781590514832

Category: Biography & Autobiography / Literary/Self-Help / General/Literary Criticism / European / French/

Publisher: Other Press, LLC

Release Date: 10/01/2011

Synopsis: 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 peoples lives. They are all versions of a bigger question: How do you live? This question obsessed Renaissance writers, none more than Michel Eyquem de Montaigne, considered by many to be the first truly modern individual. He wrote free-roaming explorations of his thoughts and experience, unlike anything written before. More than four hundred years later, Montaignes honesty and charm still draw people to him. Readers come to him in search of companionship, wisdom, and entertainment -and in search of themselves. Just as they will to this spirited and singular biography.

Awards: National Book Critics Circle Awards – null  Costa Book Awards – null  Library Journal Best Books of the Year – null  Marsh Biography Award – null 

How to Live : Or a Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer

Illustrated: No

Format: Paperback

Height: 1.1 inches

Width: 5.5 inches

Length: 8.25 inches

Weight: 14.04 oz

Pages: 416