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Montaigne / Stefan Zweig ; translated from the German by Will Stone.
- Title
- Montaigne / Stefan Zweig ; translated from the German by Will Stone.
- Author
- Zweig, Stefan, 1881-1942
- Publication
- London : Pushkin Press, 2015.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | PQ1643 .Z813 2015 | Off-site |
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- Additional Authors
- Stone, William, 1966-
- Description
- 153 p.; 17 cm.
- Summary
- 'He who thinks freely for himself, honours all freedom on earth.' Stefan Zweig was already an emigre - driven from a Europe torn apart by brutality and totalitarianism - when he found, in a damp cellar, a copy of Michel de Montaigne's Essais. Montaigne would become Zweig's last great occupation, helping him make sense of his own life and his obsessions-with personal freedom, with the sanctity of the individual. Through his writings on suicide, he would also, finally, lead Zweig to his death. With the intense psychological acuity and elegant prose so characteristic of Zweig's fiction, this account of Montaigne's life asks how we ought to think, and how to live. It is an intense and wonderful insight into both subject and biographer.
- Uniform Title
- Europäisches Erbe. Selections. English
- Alternative Title
- Europäisches Erbe.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Language (note)
- Translated from the German.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- ISBN
- 1782271031
- 9781782271031
- OCLC
- 903634812
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library