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A review by nightchough
How to Live: Or A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer by Sarah Bakewell
3.0
A must-read for anyone who has enjoyed Montaigne's Essays, to learn more about the author and his times.
Bakewell has an obvious sympathy for Montaigne and his work and gives her own experience with them in an unobtrusive way. She does a very good job of setting context, describing the society Montaigne was in, and his own professional history.
I enjoyed this quite a bit but wonder how much less I would have, without having read Montaigne first.
Bakewell has an obvious sympathy for Montaigne and his work and gives her own experience with them in an unobtrusive way. She does a very good job of setting context, describing the society Montaigne was in, and his own professional history.
I enjoyed this quite a bit but wonder how much less I would have, without having read Montaigne first.