Sarah Bakewell
The French essayist Michel de Montaigne is one of the most likeable writers ever to have lived. Sarah Bakewell’s How to Live is an unorthodox biography of this charming man, telling the story of his life by way of the questions he posed, tracing his bizarre upbringing (made to speak only Latin), his sexual adventures, travels, and friendships. It is also the story of his many readers, who, over the centuries, have found in Montaigne an inexhaustible source of possible answers to the question that concerned them as it does us – “How to live?”
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