Montaigne
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Publisher Description
Montaigne es un libro biográfico del escritor austríaco Stefan Zweig.
Es la historia de Michel Eyquem de Montaigne [miʃɛl ekɛm də mõ'tɛɲ] (Castillo de Montaigne, Saint-Michel-de-Montaigne, cerca de Burdeos, 28 de febrero de 1533 - ibíd., 13 de septiembre de 1592) fue un filósofo, escritor, humanista y moralista del Renacimiento, autor de los Ensayos y creador del género literario conocido en la Edad Moderna como ensayo. Ha sido calificado como el más clásico de los modernos y el más moderno de los clásicos. Su obra fue escrita en la torre de su propio castillo entre 1580 y 1588 bajo la pregunta "¿Qué sé yo?". Montaigne es el hermano de Juana de Montaigne, casada con Richard de Lestonnac y por lo tanto el tío de Santa Juana Lestonnac.
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In the autumn of 1941, Zweig, a bestselling Austrian-Jewish novelist and biographer who had fled to Brazil to escape the Nazis, discovered a copy of Michel de Montaigne's Essays in a basement of his new house. Over the next few months he committed suicide in February 1942 Zweig immersed himself in Essays and produced this little reflection on the 16th-century man of letters. Thanks to Stone's assiduous translation, Zweig's fascinating meditation on the writer in whom he saw himself mirrored appears now for the first time in English. Zweig weaves biographical elements into his study Montaigne's study of Latin at age four, his retirement from his public duties as a French nobleman at age 38 but the book is more properly an introduction to an endlessly inquisitive thinker who never stopped searching for the truth. Zweig depicts Montaigne as trying throughout his life to "safeguard the deepest region of spirit... from the danger of being sacrificed to the deranged prejudices of others." This captivating study portrays a writer whose life and work can be summed up by his constant posing of the question, "How should I live?"
