Sarah Bakewell was a curator of early printed books at the Wellcome Library before becoming a full-time writer, publishing her highly acclaimed biographies The Smart and The English Dane. She lives in London, where she teaches creative writing at City University and catalogues rare book collections for the National Trust.
Winner of the 2010 National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography
How to get along 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 honorable thing, while flourishing and feeling happy?
This question obsessed Renaissance writers, none more than Michel Eyquem de Monatigne, 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 in search of companionship, wisdom and entertainment—and in search of themselves.
This book, a spirited and singular biography, relates the story of his life by way of the questions he posed and the answers he explored. It traces his bizarre upbringing, youthful career and sexual adventures, his travels, and his friendships with the scholar and poet Étienne de La Boétie and with his adopted “daughter,” Marie de Gournay. And we also meet his readers—who for centuries have found in Montaigne an inexhaustible source of answers to the haunting question, “how to live?”
下了单,书还没到,先写几句。 我最喜欢蒙田的地方是,惜命而不负责任。 他知道自己对于人类的使命不是波尔多市长这个职务,而是为人类留下《随笔集》。 我联想到我儿子根本不愿意去餐馆打工,他认为他的使命不在于此,去做这种工作是浪费自己宝贵的时间。 可是我们怎么知道并...
评分我们最豪迈,最光荣的事业乃是生活得写意。 这份“写意”,不是活在旁人眼中的,不是写意给别人看的。若非如此,那最豪迈和光荣的事业依然令我们疲累不堪,只不过是换了副样貌,我们依旧在俗世所拥奉的成就中追逐奔劳。 “我们应该拥有妻子、子女、财富,以及最重要的健康。但...
评分得到听书: 蒙田是400多年前的一个法国作家,他是西方第一个写自己寻常生活的作家,他把道德哲学和普通人的私人生活联系起来。我们今天阅读蒙田,实际上是在探寻自己的心灵之链。把自己生活中的困惑,和前辈作家的经验链接起来。蒙田有点儿像古代的德波顿,或者说,现在那位英国...
评分随笔作家,这种职业往往介于家政服务和超市促销之间。 每个人都可以推门走进去,看看内容、问问价格,带着自己想要的东西离开。所以,在蒙田这里,古人看到了斯多葛主义,笛卡尔、帕斯卡发现了怀疑论,浪漫主义者找到人性和自然,伍尔夫得到了意识流,解构主义者得到了盟友的支...
评分很情慾的。 也許這正好是種自戀, 讓讀到的蒙田給自己正中下懷 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 所有人也各自延伸了各種文本 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蒙田筆記 當年萬萬沒可能讀懂 ...
A very delightful read. And it saddens me that a person as charismatic as Montaigne still has to die. Next up: The Essays.
评分太长....没读完就扔书柜了..
评分一见如故
评分太长....没读完就扔书柜了..
评分woolf论蒙田提到了与灵魂对话还有通过不同出行态度来看人生也很有趣
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