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How to Live: A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer

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First published: 2010
Pages: 461

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“How to Live: A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer” is a biography book written by Sarah Bakewell. The book tells the story of Michel Eyquem de Montaigne, a French philosopher, and his life’s work. The book explores Montaigne’s bizarre upbringing, youthful career and sexual adventures, his travels, and his friendships with the scholar and poet Étienne de La Boétie and with his adopted “daughter,” Marie de Gournay.

About the author

Sarah Bakewell

Bakewell spent ten years cataloguing early printed books at the Wellcome Library before she wrote full time, and the habit of noticing the marginal and the odd shows everywhere in her work. How to Live approaches Montaigne through twenty attempts at an answer instead of a chronology, and took a National Book Critics Circle award.