Montaigne
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- ¥300
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- ¥300
発行者による作品情報
Stefan Zweig, Nazi Almanyası'nda kitaplarının yakılmasının ardından, hümanist düşünür Erasmus'la başladığı içsel yolculuğuna yine bir hümanistle, Montaigne'le noktayı koyar. Montaigne, yazarın 1942'de hayatına son vermeyi seçmesiyle yarım kalan son eserlerinden biridir. Avrupa'yı Avrupa yapan filozof ve yazarları konu alan biyografiler üzerinden kendini anlama ve anlatma yolculuğunun Zweig için son uğrağıdır Montaigne.
Stefan Zweig, "En gönüllü ölüm, ölümlerin en güzelidir," diyen Montaigne'de kendini bulmuştur. Büyük Avrupa'yı geri dönüşü olmayacak şekilde sonlandıran İkinci Dünya Savaşı yıllarında, yaşamın ve yaşamanın insanın kendi iradesine bağlı olmaktan çıktığını fark eden son büyük Avrupalıdır Zweig.
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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?"
