Description Michel de Montaigne embodies the Humanist ideal.
Kover is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship for the translation of Manette Salomon by the Goncourt brothers..
Tina Kover\'s translations for Europa include Négar Djavadi\'s National Book Award-shortlisted novel, Disoriental, Anna Gavalda\'s Life, Only Better, and The Little Girl on the Ice Floe by Adélaďde Bon.
He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and holds honorary degrees from King\'s College London, HEC Paris, and the University of Liege.
Knopf Professor of French and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, New York.
About the Author Antoine Compagnon is a Professor of French Literature at Collčge de France, Paris, and the Blanche W.
As accompanies readers through the Essays, Compagnon never pontificates and is never austere, rather he approaches Montaigne with a sense of humor, admiration, and joy.
Montaigne\'s Essays deal with themes that remain relevant today, from the problems posed by religion, war, power and friendship to the absurdity of our fixations and peccadillos.
This engaging book, then, serves as both an introduction to Montaigne for readers unfamiliar with his work and a refresher for those who are already acquainted with his unique brilliance, vitality, and timeliness.
In A Summer with Montaigne, Compagnon invites his readers to join him as he strolls through Montaigne\'s key contributions to our understanding of what is good and worthwhile in life.
But what does Montaigne have to tell us about how to think and live today? In forty short, erudite and lively chapters written over a single summer, Antoine Compagnon seeks answers to that question.
Curious, measured, contemplative yet not unworldly, witty, free of prejudice, and urbane.
Description Michel de Montaigne embodies the Humanist ideal
