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After Montaigne - Contemporary Essayists Cover the Essays (Paperback)
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After Montaigne - Contemporary Essayists Cover the Essays (Paperback)
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Writers of the modern essay can trace their chosen genre all the
way back to Michel de Montaigne (1533-92). But save for the recent
notable best seller How to Live: A Life of Montaigne by Sarah
Bakewell, Montaigne is largely ignored. After Montaigne-a
collection of twenty-four new personal essays intended as
tribute-aims to correct this collective lapse of memory and
introduce modern readers and writers to their stylistic forebear.
Though it's been over four hundred years since he began writing his
essays, Montaigne's writing is still fresh, and his use of the form
as a means of selfexploration in the world around him reads as
innovative-even by modern standards. He is, simply put, the writer
to whom all essayists are indebted. Each contributor has chosen one
of Montaigne's 107 essays and has written his/her own essay of the
same title and on the same theme, using a quote from Montaigne's
essay as an epigraph. The overall effect is akin to a covers album,
with each writer offering his or her own interpretation and
stylistic verve to Montaigne's themes in ways that both reinforce
and challenge the French writer's prose, ideas, and forms.
Featuring a who's who of contemporary essayists, After Montaigne
offers a startling engagement with Montaigne and the essay form
while also pointing the way to the genre's potential new
directions.
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