When I am Playing with My Cat, How Do I Know She is Not Playing with Me?: Montaigne and Being in Touch with Life - Couverture rigide

Frampton, Saul

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0571234577 ISBN 13 : 9780571234578

Editeur : Faber & Faber, 2011

Synopsis

In the year 1570, at the age of thirty-seven, Michel de Montaigne gave up his job as a magistrate and retired to his chateau to brood on his own private grief - the deaths of his best friends, his father, his brother, and most recently his first-born child. But finding his mind agitated rather than settled by this idleness, Montaigne began to write, giving birth to the Essays - short prose explorations of an amazing variety of topics. And gradually, over the course of his writing Montaigne began to turn his back upon his stoical pessimism, and engage in a new philosophy of life, in which living is to be embraced in all its sensory, exuberant vitality - the smell of his doublet, the pleasures of friendship, the intelligence of his cat and the flavour of his wine. Saul Frampton offers a celebration of perhaps the most joyful and yet profound of all Renaissance writers, whose work went on to have a huge impact on Shakespeare, and whose writings offer a user's guide to existence even to the present day.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Saul Frampton studied English and Philosophy at the University of East Anglia, wrote a doctorate on Renaissance literature at Oxford and was a Research Fellow at Cambridge.
He lives in Hove, on the Sussex coast.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Faber & Faber
• Date d'édition: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0571234577
• ISBN 13: 9780571234578
• Reliure: Relié
• Langue: anglais
• Nombre de pages: 352
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible