Montaigne

Stefan Zweig author Will Stone translator

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Pushkin Press

Publishing:28th Jan '27

£9.99

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'He who thinks freely for himself, honours all freedom on earth.' Stefan Zweig was already an émigré - driven from a Europe torn apart by brutality and totalitarianism - when he found, in a damp cellar, a copy of Michel de Montaigne's Essais. Montaigne would become Zweig's last great occupation, helping him make sense of his own life and his obsessions - with personal freedom and with the sanctity of the individual. Through his writings on suicide, he would also, finally, lead Zweig to his death. With the intense psychological acuity and elegant prose so characteristic of Zweig's fiction, this account of Montaigne's life asks how we ought to think and how to live. It is an intense and wonder-filled insight into both the iconic figure in question and his biographer.

Zweig's accumulated historical and cultural studies remain a body of achievement almost too impressive to take in -- Clive James
"An incredibly consoling and hopeful book." -- Ryan Holiday
A beautiful, perhaps even the best, reflection on the great French essayist -- Nicholas Lezard * Guardian Books of the Year *
Stefan Zweig's time of oblivion is over for good ... It's good to have him back -- Salman Rushdie * The New York Times *
[During his lifetime] arguably the most widely read and translated serious author in the world -- John Fowles
An invaluable addition to Zweig's canon, casting as much light on the author's own preoccupation with personal and individual liberty as it does on Montaigne * Independent *
Thanks to Stone's assiduous translation, Zweig's fascinating meditation on the writer in whom he saw himself mirrored appears now for the first time in English * Publishers Weekly *
Will Stone's translation perfectly captures [Zweig's] cultivated Viennese flavour and pacy aphoristic elegance * The Tablet *
one of Europe's most widely acclaimed authors in the 1920s and 1930s ... an invaluable addition to Zweig's canon, casting as much light on the author's own preoccupation with personal and individual liberty as it does on Montaigne -- Lucy Scholes * Independent *

ISBN: 9781805333098

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176 pages