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Essays

de Michel de Montaigne

Outros autores: J. M. Cohen (Tradutor)

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Reflections by the creator of the essay form display the humane, skeptical, humorous, and honest views of Montaigne, revealing his thoughts on sexuality, religion, cannibals, intellectuals, and other unexpected themes. Included are such celebrated works as "On Solitude," "To Philosophize Is to Learn How to Die," and "On Experience."… (mais)
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This is a difficult book to review, not because it is difficult to read or comprehend but rather because it is so exceptionally comprehensive in its topics and thoughts and ideas. In one sense it began in 1571 when Michel de Montaigne, suffering increasingly from melancholy, retired to the library tower on his estate in the Périgord, and began to write what we know now as his Essays. At the age of thirty-eight he could look out his windows to see over his estates and check if his men were shirking their work. Inscribed on the walls and beams of his tower room were about 60 maxims in Greek and Latin taken from the philosophers. He replaced and augmented them as his moods and his reading led him.

In this room Montaigne produced three significantly different editions of his endlessly growing essays. By his death in 1592 he had scrawled in the margins of his copy of the most recent edition a significant set of further revisions, which were printed in a modified form in 1595. Montaigne wrote on a wide range of topics -- education, cannibals, drunkenness, war-horses, repentance, thumbs -- and he wrote in a highly readable, thoroughly skeptical way. The roof-beam carvings of his "solarium" convey his general frame of mind and include sayings like these: "The plague of man is the opinion of knowledge. I establish nothing. I do not understand. I halt. I examine. Breath fills a goatskin as opinion fills an hollow head. Not more this than that -- why this and not that? Have you seen a man that believes himself wise? Hope that he is a fool. Man, a vase of clay. I am Human, let nothing human be foreign to me."

The essays that he wrote defined the form of his thought while providing a window into both his mind and his life. Through his essays he has influenced writers and thinkers in every place and century since. One of my favorite examples of those he influenced is the self-taught working-man's philosopher Eric Hoffer who commented on the influence of Montaigne in his life. When on a gold-digging trip to the Sierras he took along a copy of Montaigne's essays. "We were snowed in and I read it straight through three times. I quoted it all the time. I'll bet there are still a dozen hobos in the San Joaquin Valley who can quote Montaigne." Montaigne's collected essays are worth returning to again and again to spur one's own thoughts about living and dying. I have read and enjoyed these essays over most of my adult life. With them I would also recommend those of Francis Bacon, Emerson, and Orwell, among others. ( )
  jwhenderson | Feb 7, 2022 |
I read a couple of the selection, the only one that I really liked or understood was 'On Friendship.' He makes some great observations on personal friendship, as opposed to romantic.

I really wanted to like him, but he just wanders here and there in most essays. I did like the quotes from Greek and Roman authors though. He is obviously highly educated. ( )
  delta351 | Nov 24, 2021 |
This honestly did not hold my interest. The essay on education just kept going on and on with digressions and after a while I honestly had no idea where the author was going with it or what the point was. I fail to see the appeal. This is one of those classics I can say I looked over, but that is about it. ( )
  bloodravenlib | Aug 17, 2020 |
I rarely give up on books but i did so with this one. The writing is ponderous - the self-satisfied tone unrelenting. In short - brutal. ( )
  TomMcGreevy | Nov 24, 2012 |
These are the writings -- the 'attempts' -- that created and defined the genre.
  Fledgist | Nov 19, 2011 |
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Penguin's edition of a selection of the essays, translated and edited by J. M. Cohen. 0140440836 and 014017897X are ISBNs for this edition but there may be others. This work should NOT be combined with The Complete Essays.

The same text was published by Franklin Press in 1982. All editions of the Essays with J. M. Cohen as translator are this version. But note that Penguin also published (1994) "The Essays: A Selection" translated by Screech, which is a different work.
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