How to Live: Or Possibly A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts in an Answer [Kindle Edition]

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*Starred Review* In a wide-ranging intellectual career, Michel de Montaigne found no knowledge so tough to acquire because the knowledge of how to live this life well. By casting her biography with the writer as 20 chapters, each focused on another answer towards the question How to live? Bakewell limns Montaigne’s ceaseless pursuit with this most elusive knowledge. Embedded within the 20 life-knowledge responses, readers will find essential facts—when and where Montaigne was born, how and whom he married, how he became mayor of Bordeaux, how he managed a public life inside a time of lethal religious and political passions. But Bakewell keeps the focus for the inner evolution in the acute mind informing Montaigne’s charmingly digressive and tolerantly skeptical essays. Flexible and curious, this was a mind at home contemplating the morality of cannibals, the concise explaination his own near-death experience, and the puzzlingly human behavior of animals. And though Montaigne has identified their own personality as his overarching topic, Bakewell marvels at the way Montaigne’s prose has enchanted diverse readers—Hazlitt and Sterne, Woolf and Gide—with their particular reflections. Because Montaigne’s capacious mirror still captivates many, this insightful life study will win high praise from both scholars and general readers. --Bryce Christensen

“This charming biography shuffles incidents from Montaigne’s life and essays into twenty thematic chapters…Bakewell clearly relishes the anthropological anecdotes that enliven Montaigne’s work, but she handles equally well both his philosophical influences as well as the readers and interpreters who have guided the reception of the essays.” —The New Yorker

“Serious, engaging, therefore infectiously deeply for each other with its subject i found myself racing to complete so I could start rereading the Essays themselves…It is hard to imagine a better introduction—or reintroduction—to Montaigne than Bakewell’s book.” —Lorin Stein, Harper’s Magazine

“Ms. Bakewell’s new book, How to Live, is a biography, but inside the form of the delightful conversation over the centuries.” —The The big apple Times

“So artful is Bakewell’s account of [Montaigne] that even skeptical readers might arrived at share her admiration.” —New York Times Book Review
 
“Extraordinary…a miracle of complex, revelatory organization, at as Bakewell moves along she offers a brilliant demonstration in the alchemy of historical viewpoint.” —Boston Globe

“Well, How to Live is often a superb book, original, engaging, thorough, ambitious, and wise.” —Nick Hornby, inside November/December 2010 issue of The Believer

“In How to Live, an affectionate introduction for the author, Bakewell argues that, not even close to as a dusty old philosopher, Montaigne hasn't been more relevant—a 16th-century blogger, as she'd have it—and so have to be read, quite simply, ‘in order to live’…Bakewell can be a wry and intelligent guide.” —The Daily Beast

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