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11-02-2017, 09:34 AM
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Mason on Montaigne
Davey's review of a biography of Montaigne, now in the autumn issue of the Hudson Review, and happily it's part of their online content!
http://hudsonreview.com/2017/10/the-.../#.WfshkxiZNE4
It's a timely essay on the great essayist.
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11-02-2017, 09:55 AM
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Dave has payed homage to the essay form with a human as well as erudite review.
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11-03-2017, 11:38 AM
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That is a thoughtful and learned essay, Cally. I read the selected MdM essays a few years ago and was also struck by his deep humanity and intelligence; the passages on human cruelty and the abuses of colonialism hit me hard. I think he’s correct that ‘writing is its own reward’, to phrase it thus commonly. Also, it strikes me now me that Zweig’s distillation of the 8 freedoms, while certainly redolent of the Stoics, also carries the delightful scent of the Upanishads and Whitman. Wisdom is wisdom, I might venture, though of course I’m not the first to…
I enjoyed the read. Thank you for posting it.
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11-03-2017, 10:31 PM
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Great review of a great man. I have been delighted with Montaigne's essays since I first encountered them. He really put the humane in humanism. Like Shakespeare's, his was a mind that spoke to mine across the centuries.
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11-03-2017, 11:35 PM
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A strong essay that convinces me I don't have time or energy for the book being reviewed. I'll stick with my Blackwell. Enjoyed reading this. Thanks for the notice.
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11-04-2017, 12:42 AM
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A nice essay on the essays. Montaigne is fairly challenging in French, but as Mason notes, the Florio version is one of the monuments of English prose. There are the Hazlitt and the Screech (the leading Anglo-Saxon Montaigne specialist, as I recall), but I'd go with the wonderful Florio, who was Italian and, neatly, contemporary.
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John
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11-04-2017, 02:43 PM
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Thanks so much for the link, Cally! I read Montaigne in my undergrad days when I was majoring in French Lit. In light of David's wonderful essay, I'll dust off my copy of Les Essais! Kudos on your poems in THR as well.
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