Saturday, August 23, 2025

WHAT DO I KNOW?

 Michel de Montaigne. WHAT DO I KNOW? Essential Essays. Pushkin, 2023.


I bought this book in Village Books in Bellingham in 2023 because it was a beautiful copy and contained the one essay I have worked with, "On Cannibals". It is missing one I think is as important--"On Education". Some were less enlightening than I had hoped, hindered for me by all the allusions to writers of Greece and Rome. But the similarities to issues of today is still over-whelming, as is the obvious sources in Montaigne of many Shakespearean characters and phrases. First versions of Montaigne's essays would have been published in French when Shakespeare was about 10 years old. 

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