What Do I Know? : Essential Essays

Montaigne, Michel de/ Li, Yiyun (INT)/ Coward, David (TRN)

Pushkin Press（2023/10発売）

Pushkin Press（2023/10発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 192 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781782278818
• DDC分類 844.3

Full Description

A selection of Michel de Montaigne's most profound, searching essays, in a new translation and stunning hardback edition featuring an introduction by Yiyun Li

'I myself am the subject of my book'. So wrote Montaigne in the introductory note to his Essays, the book that marked the birth of the modern essay form. In works of probing intelligence and idiosyncratic observation, Montaigne moved from intimate personal reflection to roving theories of the conduct of kings and cannibals, the effects of sorrow and fear, and the fallibility of human memory and judgement.

This new selection of Montaigne's most ingenious essays appears in a lucid new translation by the prize-winning David Coward. What Do I Know? offers the modern reader profound insight into a great Renaissance mind.

Contents

PART ONE
MONTAIGNE ON MONTAIGNE

    1      On Sorrow
    2      On how our Actions are to be judged by the Intention
    3      On Idling
    4      On Liars
    5      That we should not be considered happy until we are dead

PART TWO
ON THE PURSUIT OF REASON

    6      On Fear
    7      To tell true from false, it is folly to rely on our own capacities
    8      How we can cry and laugh at the same thing
    9      On Solitude
    10    On the Uncertainty of our Judgement
    11    On Drunkenness

PART THREE
ON GOVERNANCE AND GOVERNORS

    12    On Cannibals
    13    On the Inequality that exists between us
    14    On Sleep
    15    On our lease of life
    16    On Carriages