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Bliv medlem af LibraryThing for at finde ud af, om du vil kunne lide denne bog. Der er ingen diskussionstråde på Snak om denne bog. Montaigne's Essays is a desert island book, one of culture's 'permanent things', a source of wit and wisdom for all time. After careful consideration I give my vote to the translation by Donald Frame (I find it generally preferable to the next-best modern translation, by M.A. Screech). The widely-printed Jacobean translation by John Florio is interesting from a literary perspective but does little to convey the lucidity of Montaigne to the modern reader. This Everyman edition includes 'bonus material' in the form of Montaigne's travel journal and letters. While these additions are necessary to qualify the volume as ‘the complete works’, they are of secondary literary importance. The travel journal deals extensively with (and provides too much detail about) Montaigne’s health issues, and the letters are a rag bag of epistles dedicatory and official correspondence that do not stand on their own merits. As is usually the case with Everyman, this is the most attractive edition on the market. Buy it, then buy it again for a friend. ingen anmeldelser | tilføj en anmeldelse
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The complete works of Michel de Monaigne, including essays, letters, and travel journals of the father and unsurpassed practitioner of the essay. Humanist, skeptic, acute observer of himself and others, Michel de Montaigne (1533-92) was the first to use the term "essay" to refer to the form he pioneered and he has remained one of its most famous practitioners. He reflected on the great themes of existence in his masterly and engaging writings. His subjects ranging from proper conversation and good reading, to the raising of children and the endurance of pain; from solitude, destiny, time and custom, to truth, consciousness, and death. Having stood the test of time, his essays continue to influence writers nearly five hundred years later. Also included in this complete edition of his works are Montaigne's letters and travel journal, fascinating records of the experiences and contemplations that would shape and infuse his essays. Montaigne speaks to us always in a personal voice in which his virtues of tolerance, moderation, and understanding are dazzlingly manifest. The translation is widely acknowledged to be the classic English version. No library descriptions found. |
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Having only known Latin until the age of 6, Montaigne's influences are to be expected, especially in light of the historical era of the Renaissance: Virgil, Seneca, Cicero, Lucan, Horace, Catallus, Lucretius, Petrarch, Ariosto, Ovid, Martial, and Juvenal, to name a few.
[The following are my running notes to eventually be crafted into a sort of review.]
1. By diverse means we arrive at the same end:
2. Of sadness:
3. Our feelings reach out beyond us:
4. How the soul discharges its passions on false objects when the true are wanting:
7. That intention is judge of our actions:
8. Of idleness:
9. Of liars:
10. Of prompt or slow speech
11. Of prognostication
12. Of constancy
13. Ceremony of interviews between kings
14. That the taste of good and evil depends in large part on the opinion we have of them