A few years ago, Antoine Compagnon was asked to host a radio broadcast, every day for an entire summer, on a formidable subject: Michel de Montaigne. From that experience came this engaging and entertaining book. An intelligent and thought-provoking treatise in forty chapters that will introduce readers unfamiliar with Montaigne to his unique brilliance and remind those who already know Montaigne's work of its vitality, force, and enduring timeliness.
Antoine Compagnon is a Professor of French Literature at College de France, Paris, and the Blanche W. Knopf Professor of French and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, New York. Tina Kover is a literary translator whose works include The Black City by Georges Sand, as well as works by Anna Gavalda and Mallock, both published by Europa Editions.
Title: Summer With Montaigne
Author: Tina Kover,Antoine Compagnon
ISBN: 9781787701625
Binding:
Publisher: Europa Editions (UK) Ltd
Publication Date: 2019-07-11
Number of Pages: 144
Weight: 0.1000 kg
The clarity of Compagnon's analysis renders this once intimidating French Renaissance man miraculously close. * Elle * Nothing could be easier to read; these pages are to be savoured like a little glass of pastis in the summer. * Paris Match * A tribute to a classic author who is still well and truly in touch with the spirit of the times. * ActuaLitte *