What do I know? : essential essays / Michel de Montaigne ; translated from the French by David Coward ; with an introduction by Yiyun Li.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Montaigne, Michel de, 1533-1592, author.

Li, Yiyun, 1972- author of introduction.

Contributor:

Coward, David, translator.

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Standardized Title:

Essais. Selections. English

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Montaigne, Michel de, 1533-1592--Translations into English.

Montaigne, Michel de.

French essays--Early modern, 1500-1700--Translations into English.

French essays.

French essays--Translations into English.

Genre:

Essays.

Physical Description:

190 pages ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Pushkin Press, 2023.

Summary:

A fresh new translation of Michel de Montaignes most profound, searching essays, with an introduction from Yiyun Li, author of The Book of Goose. This gift-worthy collection of 16 essays by the father of the essay is a short, accessible introduction to his work, offering a fascinating glimpse inside a great Renaissance mind. I myself am the subject of my book. So wrote Montaigne in the introductory note to his Essays, the book that marked the birth of the modern essay form. In works of probing intelligence and idiosyncratic observation, Montaigne moved from intimate personal observation to roving theories of the conduct of kings and cannibals, the effects of sorrow and fear, and the fallibility of human memory and judgement. This new selection of Montaignes 16 most ingenious essays appears in a lucid new translation by the prize-winning David Coward. What Do I Know? gives the modern reader profound insight into a great Renaissance mind.

Contents:

Montaigne on Montaigne

On the pursuit of reason

On governance and governors.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

ISBN:

9781782278818 (hardback)

1782278818 (hardback)

OCLC:

1407097621