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Shakespeare's Montaigne : The Florio Translation of the Essays, a Selection by Michel de Montaigne (2014, Trade Paperback)
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PublisherNew York Review of Books, Incorporated, T.H.E.
ISBN-101590177223
ISBN-139781590177228
eBay Product ID (ePID)168245334
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Book TitleShakespeare's Montaigne : the Florio Translation of the Essays, a Selection
Number of Pages480 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicEuropean / French, Shakespeare, European / General
Publication Year2014
GenreLiterary Criticism
AuthorMichel De Montaigne
FormatTrade Paperback
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Item Height1 in
Item Weight17 Oz
Item Length8 in
Item Width5 in
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Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2013-043477
Dewey Edition23
Reviews"Read Montaigne in order to live." --Gustave Flaubert "Stephen Greenblatt and Peter Platt have annotated selections in Shakespeare's Montaigne and the result is a crash course in Elizabethan lit, a multiculti study of the development of English, and, above all, a revisionist biography of a monumental dramatist who not only cribbed the classical education he lacked but also responded to his sources with a fierce and censorious intelligence." --Joshua Cohen, Harper's Magazine "Like Montaigne, Florio wrote by exuding ever more complex thoughts as a spider exudes silk. But while Montaigne always moves forward, Florio winds back on himself and scrunches his sentences into ever tighter baroque spirals until their meaning disappears in a puff of syntax. The real magic happens when the two writers meet. Montaigne's earthiness holds Florio's convolutions in check, while Florio gives Montaigne an Elizabethan English quality, as well as a lot of sheer fun." --Sarah Bakewell, How to Live, or, A Life of Montaigne "He was the first who had the courage to say as an author what he felt as a man." --William Hazlitt "That such a man wrote has truly augmented the joy of living on Earth." --Friedrich Nietzsche "Montaigne is the frankest and honestest of all writers." --Ralph Waldo Emerson "I defy any reader of Montaigne not to put down the book at some point and say with incredulity: 'How did he know all that about me?' " --Bernard Levin, The Times (London) "So much have I made him my own, that it seems he is my very self." --Andr Gide "Here is a 'you' in which 'I' is reflected; here is where all distance is abolished." --Stefan Zweig "It is not in Montaigne but in myself that I find everything I see there." --Blaise Pascal "Upon his version of Montaigne's Essays [Florio] exhausted his gifts and lavished his temperament. ...Turn where you will in his translation, and you will find flowers of speech." -- The Cambridge History of English and American Literature, "He was the first who had the courage to say as an author what he felt as a man." -William Hazlitt "That such a man wrote has truly augmented the joy of living on Earth." -Friedrich Nietzsche "Montaigne is the frankest and honestest of all writers." -Ralph Waldo Emerson "I defy any reader of Montaigne not to put down the book at some point and say with incredulity: 'How did he know all that about me?' " -Bernard Levin, The Times (London) "So much have I made him my own, that it seems he is my very self." -André Gide "Here is a 'you' in which 'I' is reflected; here is where all distance is abolished." -Stefan Zweig "Don't read him as children do, for amusement, nor as the ambitious do, to be instructed. No, read him in order to live." -Gustave Flaubert "It is not in Montaigne but in myself that I find everything I see there." -Blaise Pascal "Upon his version of Montaigne's Essays [Florio] exhausted his gifts and lavished his temperament. ...Turn where you will in his translation, and you will find flowers of speech." - The Cambridge History of English and American Literature "Like Montaigne, [Florio] wrote by exuding ever more complex thoughts as a spider exudes silk. But while Montaigne always moves forward, Florio winds back on himself and scrunches his sentences in a puff of syntax. The real magic happens when the two writers meet. Montaigne's earthiness holds Florio's convolutions in check, while Florio gives Montaigne an Elizabethan English quality, as well as a lot of sheer fun." -Sara Bakewell, How to Live, or, A Life of Montaigne, "Read Montaigne in order to live." --Gustave Flaubert "Stephen Greenblatt and Peter Platt have annotated selections in Shakespeare's Montaigne and the result is a crash course in Elizabethan lit, a multiculti study of the development of English, and, above all, a revisionist biography of a monumental dramatist who not only cribbed the classical education he lacked but also responded to his sources with a fierce and censorious intelligence." --Joshua Cohen, Harper's Magazine "Like Montaigne, Florio wrote by exuding ever more complex thoughts as a spider exudes silk. But while Montaigne always moves forward, Florio winds back on himself and scrunches his sentences into ever tighter baroque spirals until their meaning disappears in a puff of syntax. The real magic happens when the two writers meet. Montaigne's earthiness holds Florio's convolutions in check, while Florio gives Montaigne an Elizabethan English quality, as well as a lot of sheer fun." --Sarah Bakewell, How to Live, or, A Life of Montaigne "He was the first who had the courage to say as an author what he felt as a man." --William Hazlitt "That such a man wrote has truly augmented the joy of living on Earth." --Friedrich Nietzsche "Montaigne is the frankest and honestest of all writers." --Ralph Waldo Emerson "I defy any reader of Montaigne not to put down the book at some point and say with incredulity: 'How did he know all that about me?' " --Bernard Levin, The Times (London) "So much have I made him my own, that it seems he is my very self." --André Gide "Here is a 'you' in which 'I' is reflected; here is where all distance is abolished." --Stefan Zweig "It is not in Montaigne but in myself that I find everything I see there." --Blaise Pascal "Upon his version of Montaigne's Essays [Florio] exhausted his gifts and lavished his temperament. ...Turn where you will in his translation, and you will find flowers of speech." -- The Cambridge History of English and American Literature, "Read Montaigne in order to live." --Gustave Faubert "Like Montaigne, Florio wrote by exuding ever more complex thoughts as a spider exudes silk. But while Montaigne always moves forward, Florio winds back on himself and scrunches his sentences in a puff of syntax. The real magic happens when the two writers meet. Montaigne's earthiness holds Florio's convolutions in check, while Florio gives Montaigne an Elizabethan English quality, as well as a lot of sheer fun." --Sarah Bakewell, How to Live, or, A Life of Montaigne "He was the first who had the courage to say as an author what he felt as a man." --William Hazlitt "That such a man wrote has truly augmented the joy of living on Earth." --Friedrich Nietzsche "Montaigne is the frankest and honestest of all writers." --Ralph Waldo Emerson "I defy any reader of Montaigne not to put down the book at some point and say with incredulity: 'How did he know all that about me?' " --Bernard Levin, The Times (London) "So much have I made him my own, that it seems he is my very self." --André Gide "Here is a 'you' in which 'I' is reflected; here is where all distance is abolished." --Stefan Zweig "It is not in Montaigne but in myself that I find everything I see there." --Blaise Pascal "Upon his version of Montaigne's Essays [Florio] exhausted his gifts and lavished his temperament. ...Turn where you will in his translation, and you will find flowers of speech." -- The Cambridge History of English and American Literature
Dewey Decimal844.3
SynopsisAn NYRB Classics Original Shakespeare, Nietzsche wrote, was Montaigne's best reader-a typically brilliant Nietzschean insight, capturing the intimate relationship between Montaigne's ever-changing record of the self and Shakespeare's kaleidoscopic register of human character. And there is no doubt that Shakespeare read Montaigne-though how extensively remains a matter of debate-and that the translation he read him in was that of John Florio, a fascinating polymath, man-about-town, and dazzlingly inventive writer himself. Florio's Montaigne is in fact one of the masterpieces of English prose, with a stylistic range and felicity and passages of deep lingering music that make it comparable to Sir Robert Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy and the works of Sir Thomas Browne. This new edition of this seminal work, edited by Stephen Greenblatt and Peter G. Platt, features an adroitly modernized text, an essay in which Greenblatt discusses both the resemblances and real tensions between Montaigne's and Shakespeare's visions of the world, and Platt's introduction to the life and times of the extraordinary Florio. Altogether, this book provides a remarkable new experience of not just two but three great writers who ushered in the modern world., An NYRB Classics Original Shakespeare, Nietzsche wrote, was Montaigne's best reader--a typically brilliant Nietzschean insight, capturing the intimate relationship between Montaigne's ever-changing record of the self and Shakespeare's kaleidoscopic register of human character. And there is no doubt that Shakespeare read Montaigne--though how extensively remains a matter of debate--and that the translation he read him in was that of John Florio, a fascinating polymath, man-about-town, and dazzlingly inventive writer himself. Florio's Montaigne is in fact one of the masterpieces of English prose, with a stylistic range and felicity and passages of deep lingering music that make it comparable to Sir Robert Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy and the works of Sir Thomas Browne. This new edition of this seminal work, edited by Stephen Greenblatt and Peter G. Platt, features an adroitly modernized text, an essay in which Greenblatt discusses both the resemblances and real tensions between Montaigne's and Shakespeare's visions of the world, and Platt's introduction to the life and times of the extraordinary Florio. Altogether, this book provides a remarkable new experience of not just two but three great writers who ushered in the modern world., Shakespeare's Montaigne offers modern readers a new, adroitly modernized edition of Florio's translation of the Essays, a still-resonant reading of Montaigne that is also a masterpiece of English prose.
LC Classification NumberPQ1642.E6G74 2014
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- 21 Apr, 2021
Florio's Montagne for the Modern Reader
It's good to have the Florio translation updated (punctuation and language) for the modern reader. Florio's English is Shakespeare's English and although the original is readable and worth looking at, it is good to have this amended addition.Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
