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

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*Starred Review* In a wide-ranging intellectual career, Michel de Montaigne found no knowledge so difficult to acquire as the understanding of how you can live this life well. By casting her biography of the writer as 20 chapters, each centered on some other answer for the question How to live? Bakewell limns Montaigne’s ceaseless pursuit of this most elusive knowledge. Embedded inside the 20 life-knowledge responses, readers will quickly realize 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 in a use 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 their own near-death experience, as well as the puzzlingly human behavior of animals. And though Montaigne has identified their own personality as his overarching topic, Bakewell marvels with the way Montaigne’s prose has enchanted diverse readers—Hazlitt and Sterne, Woolf and Gide—with their very own 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 and also the readers and interpreters who have guided the reception of the essays.” —The New Yorker

“Serious, engaging, therefore infectiously fond of its subject i found myself racing to end so I could start rereading the Essays themselves…It is difficult to imagine a much better introduction—or reintroduction—to Montaigne than Bakewell’s book.” —Lorin Stein, Harper’s Magazine

“Ms. Bakewell’s new book, How to Live, is often a biography, but in the form of the delightful conversation through the centuries.” —The Ny Times

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

“Well, How to Live is really 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 on the author, Bakewell argues that, definately not being a dusty old philosopher, Montaigne has never been more relevant—a 16th-century blogger, as she'd have it—and so should be read, quite simply, ‘in order to live’…Bakewell is often a wry and intelligent guide.” —The Daily Beast

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