Antoine Compagnon is a Professor of French Literature at Collège de France, Paris, and the Blanche W. Knopf Professor of French and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, New York.
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The premise of this book is that Michel de Montaigne’s wisdom can help us live well by helping us understand what is most important in life. In short chapters written over a summer, Antoine Compagnon takes us through some of Montaigne’s most important ideas and offers an...— Bookriot, Nov 11 2019![]()
“Compagnon’s book – derived from a series on French radio, and now published in a faithful and readable translation by Tina Kover – is an entertaining collection of forty short discussions on a wide range of topics explored by Montaigne in his monumental Essays. It serves...— The TLS, Oct 1 2019![]()
“…It is good to remember that men and women found comfort, understanding, and familiarity in books for centuries in the western world.”— Lithub, Jun 27 2019![]()
An excerpt from A Summer with Montaigne by Antoine Compagnon. Michel de Montaigne is best imagined on horseback; firstly, because that was how he traveled around his own lands and between his estate and Bordeaux, as well as elsewhere in France—to Paris, Rouen,...— The Paris Review, May 24 2019![]()
Agreeably useful reading in any season; as Compagnon quotes from Montaigne’s concluding essay, “Aesop, that great man, saw his master piss as he walked: ‘What then,’ said he, ‘must we drop as we run?’ Let us manage our time; there yet remains a great deal idle and...— Library Journal, May 9 2019
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