How to live life of montaigne6/1/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() "Well, How to Live is a superb book, original, engaging, thorough, ambitious, and wise." -Nick Hornby, in the November/December 2010 issue of The Believer "Extraordinary.a miracle of complex, revelatory organization, for as Bakewell moves along she provides a brilliant demonstration of the alchemy of historical viewpoint." - Boston Globe "So artful is Bakewell's account of that even skeptical readers may well come to share her admiration." -The New York Times Book Review Bakewell's new book, How to Live, is a biography, but in the form of a delightful conversation across the centuries." - The New York Times "Serious, engaging, and so infectiously in love with its subject that I found myself racing to finish so I could start rereading the Essays themselves.It is hard to imagine a better introduction-or reintroduction-to Montaigne than Bakewell's book." -Lorin Stein, Harper's Magazine "This charming biography shuffles incidents from Montaigne's life and essays into twenty thematic chapters.Bakewell clearly relishes the anthropological anecdotes that enliven Montaigne's work, but she handles equally well both his philosophical influences and the readers and interpreters who have guided the reception of the essays." - The New Yorker ![]()
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