Sarah Bakewell was a bookseller and a curator of early printed books at the Wellcome Library before publishing her highly acclaimed biographies The Smart, The English Dane, and the best-selling How to Live: A Life of Montaigne, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography. In addition to writing, she now teaches in the Masters of Studies in Creative Writing at Kellogg C
Brilliant, original, funny and moving — a vivid portrait of Montaigne, showing how his ideas gave birth to our modern sense of our inner selves, from Shakespeare's plays to the dilemmas we face today.
How to get on well with people, how to deal with violence, how to adjust to losing someone you love— such questions arise in most people's lives. They are all versions of a bigger question: how do you live? How do you do the good or honourable thing, while flourishing and feeling happy?
This question obsessed Renaissance writers, none more than Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (1533-92), perhaps the first truly modern individual. A nobleman, public official and wine-grower, he wrote free-roaming explorations of his thought and experience, unlike anything written before. He called them 'essays', meaning 'attempts' or 'tries'. Into them he put whatever was in his head: his tastes in wine and food, his childhood memories, the way his dog's ears twitched when it was dreaming, as well as the appalling events of the religious civil wars raging around him. The Essays was an instant bestseller, and over four hundred years later, Montaigne's honesty and charm still draw people to him. Readers come to him in search of companionship, wisdom and entertainment— and in search of themselves.
This book, a spirited and singular biography (and the first full life of Montaigne in English for nearly fifty years), relates the story of his life by way of the questions he posed and the answers he explored. It traces his bizarre upbringing (made to speak only Latin), youthful career and sexual adventures, his travels, and his friendships with the scholar and poet Etienne de La Boétie and with his adopted 'daughter', Marie de Gournay. And as we read, we also meet his readers— who for centuries have found in Montaigne an inexhaustible source of answers to the haunting question, 'how to live?'
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《濛田彆傳:“怎麼活”的二十種迴答》(法律齣版社,2013年)由薩拉•貝剋韋爾著,硃沉之翻譯,是一本可讀性很高的書。作者圍繞著二十個迴答來組織全書,交插敘述濛田的生活、寫作和思想,對濛田所處時代和其作品在後世的影響做瞭細緻的描述。這種當時情境的還原能力,加之...
評分一、為什麼要讀濛田 1、自我錶達的第一人,開創隨筆文體,想到哪兒寫到哪兒 2、活中的睏惑尋求答案 3、我們最豪邁最光榮的事業乃是生活的寫意 4、我們最重要的事情就是要活的舒服 二、濛田是如何生活的 1、之所以開始寫作,很大一個原因是他忽然意識到自己也是會死的-對抗死亡...
評分很情慾的。 也許這正好是種自戀, 讓讀到的濛田給自己正中下懷 正中下懷 聽起來就很情慾 蘇格拉底或是尼采、吳爾芙 甚至莎士比亞 有某種質地綿延地在流轉 所有人也各自延伸瞭各種文本 令人驚訝文學的意義 卻又理所當然似的 也許該重讀張惠菁的濛田筆記 當年萬萬沒可能讀懂 ...
評分一種記錄當下生活與存在的意識流不預設任何目的,讓自己沉浸在意識的河水中,探索小說人物每分鍾意念的流轉,濛田專注於自己活著的當下,進行單純的感受。“把意識置於人類存在的核心,因而使意識讓它自己感到吃驚”(龐蒂) 拉博埃迪《論自願為奴》:人民迷戀上瞭獨裁者,以獨...
圖書標籤: 濛田 傳記 英國 哲學 Montaigne 生活 原版 散文
大傢快去讀濛田啊!
評分大傢快去讀濛田啊!
評分大傢快去讀濛田啊!
評分因為瞄到作者的另一本新書是某個榜單上的第一…而且圖書館有四個預約等位。好奇藉來這本看看…
評分因為瞄到作者的另一本新書是某個榜單上的第一…而且圖書館有四個預約等位。好奇藉來這本看看…
How to Live 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載