We owe to Montaigne the idea that immersion in
one s inner world can be a sociable act, and that what makes us an
individual also brings out the humanity we share with others. Living
from 1533 to 1592, in a France dominated by bloody and miserable civil
war, he maintained as private a life as possible while writing a hundred
or so lively, revealing pieces which he called essais, or tries . He
talks about eelings that are hard to express or even to notice- about
the experience of being lazy, or brave, or indecisive; about lying;
about obsessive fears of death or illness, and the way they seem to
recede as ctual misfortunes increase. He often describes the sheer
pleasure of being alive a sensation he has learned to enhance simply by
paying close attention to it. This book tells his life story the first
biography in English for nearly fifty years examining his youthful
journeys to Italy and his friendships, with the scholar and poet Etienne
la Boetie and with his protegee and virtual adopted daughter Marie de
Gournay. But it also traces the way generations of readers have felt
drawn to him since his death, recognising their own features in his
self-portrait. Ultimately it a
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