How to Live: Or A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer [Kindle Edition] review

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*Starred Review* In a wide-ranging intellectual career, Michel de Montaigne found no knowledge so hard to acquire since the familiarity with how you can live this life well. By casting her biography of the writer as 20 chapters, each focused on another answer to the question How to live? Bakewell limns Montaigne’s ceaseless pursuit with this most elusive knowledge. Embedded inside 20 life-knowledge responses, readers will quickly realize essential facts—when and where Montaigne was born, how and whom he married, how he became mayor of Bordeaux, how he managed a public life inside a use of lethal religious and political passions. But Bakewell keeps the focus on the inner evolution with the acute mind informing Montaigne’s charmingly digressive and tolerantly skeptical essays. Flexible and curious, this would be a mind in the home contemplating the morality of cannibals, the specification of his or her own near-death experience, and also the puzzlingly human behavior of animals. And though Montaigne has identified his or her own personality as his overarching topic, Bakewell marvels at the way Montaigne’s prose has enchanted diverse readers—Hazlitt and Sterne, Woolf and Gide—with their own reflections. Because Montaigne’s capacious mirror still captivates many, this insightful life study will win high praise from both scholars and general readers. --Bryce Christensen

“This charming biography shuffles incidents from Montaigne’s life and essays into twenty thematic chapters…Bakewell clearly relishes the anthropological anecdotes that enliven Montaigne’s work, but she handles equally efficiently both his philosophical influences as well as the readers and interpreters who have guided the reception with the essays.” —The New Yorker

“Serious, engaging, therefore infectiously crazy about its subject that we found myself racing in order to complete so I really could start rereading the Essays themselves…It is hard to imagine a much better introduction—or reintroduction—to Montaigne than Bakewell’s book.” —Lorin Stein, Harper’s Magazine

“Ms. Bakewell’s new book, How to Live, is really a biography, but inside the form of an delightful conversation across the centuries.” —The The big apple Times

“So artful is Bakewell’s account of [Montaigne] that even skeptical readers might come to share her admiration.” —New York Times Book Review
 
“Extraordinary…a miracle of complex, revelatory organization, at as Bakewell moves along she offers a brilliant demonstration in the alchemy of historical viewpoint.” —Boston Globe

“Well, How to Live is a superb book, original, engaging, thorough, ambitious, and wise.” —Nick Hornby, inside November/December 2010 issue of The Believer

“In How to Live, an affectionate introduction on the author, Bakewell argues that, faraway from as a dusty old philosopher, Montaigne has never been more relevant—a 16th-century blogger, as she'd have it—and so should be read, quite simply, ‘in order to live’…Bakewell is often a wry and intelligent guide.” —The Daily Beast

“Witty, unorthodox…How to Live can be a histo...





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